Business & Finance
Tue, February 7, 2012
NEW YORK--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--On February 6, 2012, at a meeting of the Boards of Dreyfus Strategic Municipal Bond Fund, Inc. (NYSE: DSM) and Dreyfus Strategic Municipals, Inc. (NYSE: LEO), each Boardapproved the appointment of Steven Harvey as co-primary portfolio manager for its respective Fund. Mr. Harvey will co-manage each Fund with Daniel A. Barton, each Fundas current portfolio manager. The Dreyfus Corporation (aDreyfusa) continues to be the investment adviser for each Fund.
Mr. Harvey has been employed by Dreyfus since April 2009 and a portfolio manager for each Fund since December 2009. He is a senior portfolio manager serving select institutional and mutual fund portfolios, including certain other Dreyfus municipal bond funds for which he is a portfolio manager. Mr. Harvey is a Director of Relationship Management at Standish Mellon Asset Management Company LLC (aStandisha), an affiliate of Dreyfus, leading the Tax Sensitive Fixed Income client service effort. Mr. Harvey joined Standish in 2000 from Appleton Partners, where he was Director of Fixed Income. Prior to that, among other things, he was a municipal bond mutual fund manager and senior analyst at Fidelity Management Research Company. Mr. Harvey has an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.