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Morgan Stanley Income Securities, Inc. is a closed-end management investment company. It provides high level of current income for distribution to shareholders with prudent risk and capital appreciation. The company was founded on December 21, 1972 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Fund, Inc. is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is long-term capital appreciation through investments primarily in emerging country equity securities. To the extent that the Fund invests in derivative instruments that the Adviser believes have economic characteristics similar to emerging country equity securities, such investments will be counted for purposes of the Fund's policy in the previous sentence. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Latin American Discovery Fund, Inc. is a closed-end investment fund. Its investment objective is to seek long-term capital appreciation through investments primarily in equity securities of Latin American issuers and by investing, from time to time, in debt securities issued or guaranteed by a Latin American government or governmental entity. The company was founded on November 12, 1991 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Morgan Stanley Asia-Pacific Fund, Inc. is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is long-term capital appreciation through investments primarily in equity securities of Asian-Pacific issuers and in debt securities issued or guaranteed by Asian Pacific governments or governmental entities. The company was founded on February 28, 1994 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund, Inc. is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company, whose investment objective is to produce current income. Its secondary objective is to seek capital appreciation through investments primarily in debt securities of government and government-related issuers. The company was founded on May 6, 1993 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Morgan Stanley Variable Insurance Fund, Inc. is an open-end mutual fund company engages in the provision of investment activities. It offers diversified and non-diversified series as well as investment vehicles for variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance policies and for certain tax-qualified investors. The company was founded March 26, 1996 and is headquartered in New York.

Morgan Stanley European Equity Fund, Inc. is a diversified open management investment company. Its primary objective is to seek a high level of current income. It also has a secondary investment objective of long-term capital appreciation. The company was founded on February 13, 1990 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Alternative Investment Partners Absolute Return Fund is a closed investment fund. It engages in seeking capital appreciation through investing in investment funds managed by third party investment managers who employ a return investment strategies in pursuit of attractive risk-adjusted returns consistent with the preservation of capital. The company was founded on May 12, 2005 and is headquartered in West Conshohocken, PA.

Alternative Investment Partners Absolute Return Fund STS is a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company, which invests substantially all its assets in private investment funds, commonly referred to as hedge funds that are managed by a select group of alternative managers. The company was founded on October 31, 2005 and is headquartered in West Conshohocken, PA.