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EX-99.77B ACCT LTTR 2 hqlaudit.txt AUDIT Exhibit 77B Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm To the Trustees and Shareholders of HQ Life Science Investors In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements of HQ Life Science Investors the Fund as of and for the year ended September 30, 2007, in accordance with the Standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board United States, we considered its internal control over financial reporting, including control activities for safeguarding securities, as a basis for designing our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinion on the financial statements and to comply with the requirements of Form NSAR, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Funds internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. Management of the Fund is responsible for establishing and maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting. In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and judgments by management are required to assess the expected benefits and related costs of controls. The Funds internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America generally accepted accounting principles. Such internal control includes policies and procedures that provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of a Funds assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements. Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. A control deficiency exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow management or employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned functions, to prevent or detect misstatements on a timely basis. A significant deficiency is a control deficiency, or combination of control deficiencies, that adversely affect the Funds ability to initiate, authorize, record, process or report financial data reliably in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles such that there is more than a remote likelihood that a misstatement of the Funds annual or interim financial statements that is more than inconsequential will not be prevented or detected. A material weakness is a significant deficiency, or combination of significant deficiencies, that results in more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of the annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected. Our consideration of the Funds internal control over financial reporting was for the limited purpose described in the first paragraph and would not necessarily disclose all deficiencies in internal control that might be significant deficiencies or material weaknesses under standards established by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board United States. However, we noted no deficiencies in the Funds internal controls over financial reporting and its operation, including controls for safeguarding securities that we consider to be a material weakness, as defined above, as of September 30, 2007. This report is intended solely for the information and use of management, the Board of Trustees and Shareholders of HQ Life Science Investors, and the Securities and Exchange Commission and is not intended to be and should not be used by anyone other than these specified parties. DELOITTE TOUCHE LLP Boston, Massachusetts November 16, 2007 EX-99.77C VOTES 3 hqlexhibit77cvotes.txt EXHIBIT 99C Exhibit 77C An Annual Meeting of Shareholders was held on June 21, 2007 and adjourned on July 20, 2007 in order to permit shareholders further time to respond to the solicitation of proxies. The description of each proposal and number of votes cast by shareholders are as follows 1.To elect four Trustees of the Fund for a term of two to three years or until his respective successor shall have been duly elected and qualified. The Trustees were elected to serve until the 2010 Annual Meeting, except for Rakesh K. Jain, Ph.D. who was elected to serve until the 2009 Annual Meeting. For Withheld Rakesh K. Jain, Ph.D. 12,677,346 888,226 Lawrence S. Lewin 12,777,670 787,902 Uwe E. Reinhardt, Ph.D. 12,757,218 808,354 Trustees serving until the 2008 Annual Meeting are Robert P. Mack, Eric Oddleifson, and Oleg M. Pohotsky. Trustees serving until the 2009 Annual Meeting are Daniel R. Omstead, Ph.D. and Lucinda Stebbins, CPA. 2.To ratify the appointment of Deloitte Touche LLP as the independent registered public accountants of the Fund for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007. For Against Withheld 13,020,601 245,113 299,858 3.To eliminate the Funds fundamental investment restriction with respect to the percentage of the outstanding voting securities of any one issuer that the Fund may purchase. For Against Abstain NonVotes 9,767,437 793,447 476,045 3,389,654 4.To amend the Funds fundamental investment restriction with respect to the percentage of portfolio securities that may be on loan. 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