Delaware Investments(R) Municipal Income Funds Announce Dividends
December 28 2007 - 5:22PM
PR Newswire (US)
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, the
following four Delaware Investments municipal income funds, all
closed-end management investment companies, declare their monthly
income dividends: Delaware Investments Arizona Municipal Income
Fund, Inc., Delaware Investments Colorado Insured Municipal Income
Fund, Inc. (to be renamed Delaware Investments Colorado Municipal
Income Fund, Inc. on January 2, 2008), Delaware Investments
National Municipal Income Fund (formerly Delaware Investments
Florida Insured Municipal Income Fund) and Delaware Investments
Minnesota Municipal Income Fund II, Inc. (together, the "Funds").
The investment objective of each Fund is to provide current income
exempt from federal income tax and from the personal income tax of
its state, if any, consistent with the preservation of capital. In
addition, each Fund utilizes leveraging techniques in an attempt to
obtain a higher return for the Fund. The following dates apply to
today's dividend announcement: Declaration Date: 12/28/2007
Ex-Date: 1/9/2008 Record Date: 1/11/2008 Payable Date: 1/25/2008
The dividend distributions are as follows: FUND Dividend per Share
Delaware Investments Arizona Municipal Income Fund, Inc.
(ASE:VAZ)(2) $0.050000 Delaware Investments Colorado Insured
Municipal Income Fund, Inc. (to be renamed Delaware Investments
Colorado Municipal Income Fund, Inc. on January 2, 2008)
(ASE:VCF)(3) $0.060000 Delaware Investments National Municipal
Income Fund (ASE:VFL) $0.052500 Delaware Investments Minnesota
Municipal Income Fund II, Inc. (ASE:VMM)(4) $0.055000 (1) The
dividends are exempt from Federal income tax. (2) The dividend is
exempt from Arizona state personal income tax. (3) The dividend is
exempt from Colorado state personal income tax. (4) The dividend is
exempt from Minnesota state personal income tax. About Delaware
Investments: Delaware Investments, an affiliate of Lincoln
Financial Group, is a Philadelphia-based diversified asset
management firm with more than $167 billion in assets under
management as of September 30, 2007. Through a broad range of
managed accounts and portfolios, mutual funds, retirement accounts,
sub-advised funds and other investment products, Delaware
Investments provides investment services to individual investors
and to institutional investors such as private and public pension
funds, foundations, and endowment funds. Delaware Investments is
the marketing name for Delaware Management Holdings, Inc. and its
subsidiaries. For more information on Delaware Investments, visit
the company at http://www.delawareinvestments.com/. Lincoln
Financial Group is the marketing name for Lincoln National
Corporation (NYSE:LNC) and its affiliates. For more information on
Lincoln Financial Group, visit http://www.lfg.com/. DATASOURCE:
Delaware Investments CONTACT: Ayele Ajavon, Corporate
Communications, +1-215-255-1632, , or Laurel O'Brien, Corporate
Communications, +1-215-255-1520, , both of Delaware Investments Web
site: http://www.delawareinvestments.com/ http://www.lfg.com/
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