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Invesco High Yield Investments Fund Holds 2010 Annual Meeting of Stockholders

^{Published on 2010-10-07 09:26:07 - Market Wire}
 

HOUSTON--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Today, Invesco High Yield Investments Fund, Inc. (formerly Morgan Stanley High Yield Fund, Inc.) (the aFunda) (NYSE: MSY) held its annual meeting of stockholders. The matters considered at the annual meeting were the election of Class I directors and the approval of new investment advisory and sub-advisory agreements for the Fund with Invesco Advisers, Inc. and certain of its affiliates.

At the meeting, stockholders elected Albert R. Dowden, Prema Mathai-Davis, Lewis F. Pennock, Hugo F. Sonnenschein and Raymond Stickel, Jr. as Class I directors.

In addition, a new investment advisory agreement with Invesco Advisers, Inc. and a new master sub-advisory agreement between Invesco Advisers, Inc. and each of Invesco Asset Management Deutschland GmbH, Invesco Asset Management Limited, Invesco Asset Management (Japan) Limited, Invesco Australia Limited, Invesco Hong Kong Limited, Invesco Senior Secured Management, Inc. and Invesco Trimark Ltd. have been approved for the Fund.

In 2009, Morgan Stanley entered into a definitive agreement to sell substantially all of its retail asset management business to Invesco Ltd., a leading global investment management company (the aTransactiona). The Transaction was consummated on June 1, 2010. Invesco Advisers, Inc. and its affiliates had been serving as interim investment adviser and interim sub-advisers to the Fund pursuant to interim advisory and sub-advisory agreements between the Fund, Invesco Advisers, Inc., and certain of its affiliates, which took effect on June 1, 2010 upon consummation of the Transaction.

For more information, call 1-800-341-2929 or access [ www.invesco.com ].

About Invesco

Invesco is a leading independent global investment manager, dedicated to helping investors worldwide achieve their financial objectives. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, Invesco provides a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our retail, institutional and high net worth clients around the world. Operating in 20 countries, the company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol IVZ. Additional information is available at [ www.invesco.com ].

Invesco Advisers, Inc. is an investment adviser; it provides investment advisory services to individual and institutional clients and does not sell securities. Invesco Distributors, Inc. is the U.S. distributor for Invesco Ltd.a™s retail mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and institutional money market funds and the subdistributor for its STIC Global Funds. Both are wholly owned, indirect subsidiaries of Invesco Ltd.