Notice to Investment Company Filers   

The new series and class page is now operational on the edgarfiling website (https://www.edgarfiling.sec.gov/).

The series and class page is live, and filers who filed their latest registration statements or amendments on Form N-1A, N-3, N-4, or N-6 may use the page to enter information for their series and classes (contracts); filers who do so will be issued series and classes (contracts) identifiers.

However, using the page and obtaining identifiers IS NOT mandatory at this time. Obtaining identifiers will not become mandatory unless and until the Commission acts through a formal rulemaking to adopt the series and class requirements that were proposed.

Please read "Rulemaking for EDGAR System" Release 33-8401 (http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/33-8401.htm) and Appendix J to the EDGAR Filer Manual (http://www.sec.gov/worddocs/edgarlinkfm87-r7.doc) for further information. If you still have questions, please call the Division of Investment Management's IM EDGAR Inquiry Line at 202-942-0978.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Before you use the series and class page, you must make sure your registrant has only one CIK. Those 1940 Act registrants for whom the Commission proposes to require identifiers for their series and classes (or contracts, in the case of separate accounts) (i.e., Form N-1A, N-3, N-4 and N-6 registrants) must submit their 1940 Act filings under only one 1940 Act number (811-) and one CIK. (Registrants may have multiple 1933 Act numbers under a single CIK.)

If you are a 1940 Act registrant wishing to obtain identifiers and have more than one 1940 Act number or more than one CIK, you must call the IM EDGAR Inquiry Line at 202-942-0978 for assistance before proceeding on the series and class page.

http://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/ednews/edgarclass.htm