NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 05/23/13 — Cornerstone Progressive Return Fund (the “Fund”) (NYSE MKT: CFP) announced today that the subscription period for its rights offering to holders of the Fund-s common shares will commence on Monday, June 3, 2013.
The Fund is issuing to its shareholders non-transferable rights entitling the holders to subscribe for an aggregate of 8,392,975 common shares. Each shareholder is to be issued one right for each whole share owned on the record date, May 28, 2013.
The rights entitle shareholders to acquire one share for each three rights held. The subscription period will commence on Monday, June 3, 2013, and will expire at 5:00 p.m., New York time, on Friday, June 21, 2013, unless extended (the “Expiration Date”). The actual subscription price per share, as determined on the Expiration Date, will be the greater of (i) 107% of the net asset value per share as calculated at the close of trading on the Expiration Date and (ii) 90% of the market price per share at such time.
Cornerstone Progressive Return Fund is a diversified, closed-end management company organized as an unincorporated Delaware statutory trust and is registered with the Securities & Exchange Commission under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Fund is listed on the NYSE MKT under the ticker symbol “CFP”.
For further information regarding the Fund-s rights offering, or to obtain a Prospectus, please contact AST Fund Solutions, LLC, the Fund-s Information Agent, toll-free at (800) 581-4001. For more information regarding the Fund, please visit