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Madison/Claymore Covered Call & Equity Strategy Fund as of 07/28/2010

NYSE / MCN

Asset Class: Opt Arbitrage/Opt Strat

1 YR Lipper Avg: 13.37%

Growth of $10K
Graph reflects most recent month-end data.
Avg Annual Total Return %
	10 YR	5 YR	1 YR	YTD
Market Return	--	-2.14%	22.47%	-0.42%
Lipper Pct. Rank	--	95	19	37

NAV Return	--	-0.64%	10.33%	-0.17%
Lipper Pct. Rank	--	95	63	49

Premium/Discount History
Graph reflects most recent month-end data.
Premium/Discount
10 YR Avg	5 YR Avg	YTD Avg
--	-6.780%	-13.010%

NAV	$9.25	Market Price	$8.51
Net Change	-$0.06	Market Change	-$0.02
Premium/Discount			-8.00%
1 YR NAV Return			10.331%
1 YR NAV Rank			63
12-Mo Yield as of 6/30/2010			Yield Def
Income Only Yield			0.00%
Distribution Yield (Market)			9.41%

Most Recent Income Dividend	$0.180
Ex-Div Date	5/12/2010
Most Recent Cap Gain Dividend	--
Ex-Div Date	--
Dividend Frequency	Quarterly
YTD Dividends	$0.360
YTD Capital Gains	--

Inception Date	7/28/2004
Fund Advisor	Claymore Advisors LLC
Manager & Tenure	Burgess since 2004 DiBernardo since 2009
Phone	800-345-7999
Website	www.claymore.com
Annual Report	Free Download
Total Net Assets (mil) as of 6/30/2010		$167.2
% Leveraged Assets as of 12/31/2009		6.49%
Portfolio Turnover		14.00%
Mgmt Fees		1.098%
Expense Ratio		1.620%

Fund Objective

The Fund seeks a high level of current income and capital appreciation by investing primarily in the common stock of large-capitalization companies and writing covered call options on them to generate income.

Top Holdings (as of 3/31/2010)
AIM Liquid Assets Portfolio;Institutional	25.48%
eBay Inc ORD	3.94%
Capital One Financial Corp ORD	3.32%
UnitedHealth Group Inc ORD	3.27%
Cisco Systems Inc ORD	3.23%
Wells Fargo & Co ORD	2.81%
Biogen Idec Inc ORD	2.59%
Lowe's Companies Inc ORD	2.55%
State Street Corp ORD	2.49%
Flextronics International Ltd ORD	2.33%

Top Sectors (as of 3/31/2010)
Health Care	17.10%
Financials	15.57%
Consumer Services	15.12%
Technology	14.22%
Oil & Gas	6.21%
Industrials	4.03%
Consumer Goods	1.78%
Telecommunications	0.04%
Basic Materials	0.01%

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