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Madison/Claymore Covered Call & Equity Strategy Fund as of 02/05/2010

NYSE / MCN

Asset Class: Opt Arbitrage/Opt Strat

1 YR Lipper Avg: 27.62%

Growth of $10K
Graph reflects most recent month-end data.
Avg Annual Total Return %
	10 YR	5 YR	1 YR	YTD
Market Return	--	-1.70%	56.44%	-3.60%
Lipper Pct. Rank	--	88	12	17

NAV Return	--	0.12%	44.83%	-1.14%
Lipper Pct. Rank	--	75	12	9

Premium/Discount History
Graph reflects most recent month-end data.
Premium/Discount
10 YR Avg	5 YR Avg	YTD Avg
--	-5.769%	-14.760%

NAV	$9.51	Market Price	$8.58
Net Change	$0.04	Market Change	-$0.08
Premium/Discount			-9.78%
1 YR NAV Return			44.832%
1 YR NAV Rank			12
12-Mo Yield as of 12/31/2009			Yield Def
Income Only Yield			0.04%
Distribution Yield (Market)			9.29%

Most Recent Income Dividend	$0.196
Ex-Div Date	11/10/2009
Most Recent Cap Gain Dividend	--
Ex-Div Date	--
Dividend Frequency	Quarterly
YTD Dividends	$0.796
YTD Capital Gains	--

Inception Date	7/28/2004
Fund Advisor	Claymore Advisors LLC
Manager & Tenure	Frank E. Burgess since 2004
Phone	800-345-7999
Website	www.claymore.com
Annual Report	Free Download
Total Net Assets (mil) as of 1/31/2010		$183.7
% Leveraged Assets as of 12/31/2008		5.46%
Portfolio Turnover		33.00%
Mgmt Fees		1.085%
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 6/30/2009)
Cisco Systems Inc	4.57%
Wells Fargo & Co	3.59%
EMC Corp	3.55%
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc	3.41%
PowerShares QQQ Trust Series 1	3.36%
State Street Corp	3.20%
eBay Inc	3.10%
UnitedHealth Group Inc	3.08%
American Eagle Outfitters Inc	3.06%
Apache	3.03%

Top Sectors (as of 6/30/2009)
Technology	30.22%
Health Care	22.48%
Consumer Services	20.98%
Financials	19.64%
Oil & Gas	7.95%
Industrials	5.93%
Consumer Goods	3.83%
Telecommunications	0.12%
Utilities	0.12%
Basic Materials	0.09%

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