MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY — (Marketwire) — 12/21/12 — Bancroft Fund Ltd. (NYSE MKT: BCV) announced today that the price at which its beneficial shares will be issued to shareholders who elected to receive additional shares in payment of the 2012 year-end dividend will be $16.44 per share. The issue price represents the closing price of the shares on the NYSE MKT Exchange on December 20, 2012, which was below the net asset value of $19.39 per share on that date. The dividend is payable on December 28, 2012.
Bancroft Fund Ltd. operates as a closed-end, diversified management Investment Company and invests primarily in convertible securities, with the objectives of providing income and the potential for capital appreciation; which objectives the Fund considers to be relatively equal, over the long-term, due to the nature of the securities in which it invests. Its shares are traded on the NYSE MKT Exchange under the ticker symbol BCV.
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Gary I. Levine
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