SSF.UN Symphony Floating Rate Senior Loan Fund

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Brompton Funds Limited (the "Manager") is pleased to announce that Symphony
Floating Rate Senior Loan Fund (TSX:SSF.UN) (the "Fund") has completed the
issuance of 450,000 Class A Units for gross proceeds of $4.5 million. This
issuance was pursuant to the exercise of the over-allotment option granted to
the agents in connection with the Fund's recently completed initial public
offering. With the exercise of the over-allotment option, total gross proceeds
raised by the Fund are approximately $54.5 million. The Class A Units trade on
the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol SSF.UN. The Fund also offered Class
U Units which are designed for investors wishing to make their investment in
U.S. dollars and are not listed on a stock exchange but may be converted into
Class A Units on a weekly basis.


The Fund's investment objectives are to (i) provide monthly tax-advantaged
distributions consisting primarily of returns of capital; and (ii) preserve
capital, in each case, through exposure to an actively managed, diversified
portfolio consisting primarily of short-duration floating rate senior corporate
debt instruments, including senior secured loans and other senior debt
obligations of North American non-investment grade corporate borrowers. The
Fund's initial distribution target is expected to be $0.05833 per Class A Unit
per month (US$0.05833 per Class U Unit per month), representing an initial yield
on the Unit issue price of 7% per annum, consisting primarily of returns of
capital which are not immediately taxable but which reduce a Unitholder's
adjusted cost base of its Units. The Manager intends to hedge substantially all
of the value of the portfolio attributable to the Class A Units to the Canadian
dollar and substantially all of the value of the portfolio attributable to the
Class U Units to the U.S. dollar. 


The Manager has selected Symphony Asset Management LLC, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Nuveen Investments, Inc., to act as sub-advisor for SSF Trust in
connection with the selection, purchase and sale of senior loans and other
assets of the portfolio. Backed by an institutional calibre integrated credit
platform and supported by a 17-member team of experienced credit investment
professionals, Symphony manages approximately US$5.4 billion focused on senior
loans with approximately US$8.9 billion in assets under management as at June
30, 2011. Funds sub-advised by Symphony have achieved top three, five and
ten-year performance rankings by Lipper as at June 30, 2011 for the senior loan
asset class. Nuveen and its affiliates had approximately US$210 billion of
assets under management as at June 30, 2011. As at December 31, 2010, Nuveen was
the leading sponsor of U.S.-listed closed-end funds according to Morningstar
Fundamental Data as measured by the number of funds (132) and the amount of fund
assets under management (approximately US$49 billion). 


The syndicate of agents for the offering was co-led by RBC Capital Markets, CIBC
and BMO Capital Markets and included Scotia Capital Inc., TD Securities Inc.,
GMP Securities L.P., HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc., Raymond James Ltd.,
Canaccord Genuity Corp., Macquarie Private Wealth Inc., Desjardins Securities
Inc., Dundee Securities Ltd., Mackie Research Capital Corporation and Manulife
Securities Incorporated. 


For further information, please contact your financial advisor, call our
investor relations line at 416-642-9051, (toll-free at 1-866-642-6001) or visit
our website at www.bromptonfunds.com.


Commissions, trailing commissions, management fees and expenses all may be
associated with investment funds. Please read the Fund's publicly filed
documents which are available from SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Investment funds are
not guaranteed, their values change frequently and past performance may not be
repeated.


Certain statements contained in this news release constitute forward-looking
information within the meaning of Canadian securities laws. Forward-looking
information may relate to matters disclosed in this press release and to other
matters identified in public filings relating to the Fund, to the future outlook
of the Fund and anticipated events or results and may include statements
regarding the future financial performance of the Fund. In some cases,
forward-looking information can be identified by terms such as "may", "will",
"should", "expect", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "intend", "estimate",
"predict", "potential", "continue" or other similar expressions concerning
matters that are not historical facts. Actual results may vary from such
forward-looking information. 


The securities offered have not been registered under the U.S. Securities Act of
1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent
registration or any applicable exemption from the registration requirements.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of
an offer to buy securities nor will there be any sale of such securities in any
state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.

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