Tax-Advantaged Preferred Income Fund Series M Auction Preferred Shares
First Trust Advisors, LP
Lisle, IL, October 23, 2008 -- First Trust Advisors L.P. ("FTA") announced today that First Trust Tax-Advantaged Preferred Income Fund (FPI), a closed-end fund managed by FTA, intends to redeem $2.2 million of its $12.1 million outstanding Series M Auction Preferred Shares ("Series M Shares"). The Fund expects to effect such redemption of Series M Shares, subject to satisfying the notice and other requirements that apply to redemption, on October 24, 2008. The auction rate period is seven days for the Series M Shares. Approximately $9.9 million of the Series M Shares will remain outstanding following the redemption.
The Depository Trust Company ("DTC"), holder of record of the Series M Shares, determines how a partial series redemption will be allocated among each participant broker-dealer account. Each participant broker-dealer, as nominee for underlying beneficial owners (street name shareholders), in turn determines how redeemed shares are allocated among its underlying beneficial owners. The procedures used by different broker-dealers to allocate redeemed shares among beneficial owners may differ from each other as well as from the procedures used by DTC.
For additional information about any closed-end fund managed by FTA, including risks, charges and expenses, please see the fund's annual and semi-annual shareholder reports or contact your financial advisor.
FTA and its affiliate First Trust Portfolios L.P. are privately-held companies which provide a variety of investment services, including asset management, financial advisory services, and municipal and corporate investment banking, with collective assets under management or supervision of over $26 billion as of September 30, 2008 through closed-end funds, unit investment trusts, mutual funds, separate managed accounts and exchange-traded funds.
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