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Global High Income Fund Inc. " Distribution Characteristics for January 2009

^{Published on 2009-01-30 13:28:59, Last Modified on 2009-01-30 13:29:51 - Market Wire}
 

NEW YORK--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Global High Income Fund Inc. (the "Fund") (NYSE: GHI), a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company seeking high current income and secondarily, capital appreciation through investments primarily in securities of emerging market debt issuers, today announced its distribution characteristics for the month of January 2009.

On January 12, 2009, the Fund's Board of Directors declared a regular monthly distribution of $0.0770 per share. This distribution is payable on January 30, 2009 to shareholders of record as of January 22, 2009. The ex-dividend date was January 20, 2009.

The Fund adopted a managed distribution policy in December 1999, which was revised in May 2005. Pursuant to the policy as currently in effect, the Fund makes regular monthly distributions at an annualized rate equal to 9% of the Fund's net asset value, as determined as of the last day on which the New York Stock Exchange is open for trading during the first week of that month. The Fund's Board receives recommendations from UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc., the Fund's investment advisor, periodically and no less frequently than annually will reassess the annualized percentage of net assets at which the Fund's monthly distributions will be made. The Fund's Board may change or terminate the managed distribution policy at any time; any such change or termination may have an adverse effect on the market price for the Fund's shares.

To the extent that the Fund's taxable income in any fiscal year exceeds the aggregate amount distributed based on a fixed percentage of its net asset value, the Fund would make an additional distribution in the amount of that excess near the end of the fiscal year. To the extent that the aggregate amount distributed by the Fund based on a fixed percentage of its net asset value exceeds its current and accumulated earnings and profits, the amount of that excess would constitute a return of capital or net realized capital gains for tax purposes.

Based on information available at this time, the Fund estimates that net investment income, excluding short-term capital gains, is the source of approximately 100% of the January distribution of $0.0770 per share. Additionally, for the Fund's current fiscal period which began on November 1, 2008 through January 31, 2009, it is currently estimated that net investment income is the source of approximately 100% of your regular monthly aggregate distributions of $0.2281 per share. These are only estimates, however, and are subject to change.

The actual sources of the Fund's distributions may be net investment income, net realized capital gains, return of capital or a combination of the foregoing and may be subject to retroactive recharacterization at the end of the Fund's fiscal year based on tax regulations. The actual amounts attributable to each of these sources will be reported to each shareholder next January on Form 1099-DIV.

As of December 31, 2008, the Fund had estimated distributions in excess of net investment income of $205,783.