Barclays announced today the adjournment of special meetings to discuss changing trusteeship and management of five funds.

The funds are Barclays Advantaged S&P(R)/TSX(R) Income Trust Index Fund, Barclays Advantaged Equal Weighted Income Fund, Barclays Advantaged Corporate Bond Fund, Barclays Income + Growth Split Trust and Barclays Top 100 Equal Weighted Income Fund.

Meetings were held to discuss changing trusteeship and management of the funds from Barclays Global Investors Canada Ltd. to Brompton Funds LP.

The adjourned meetings of the funds will take place at 9 a.m. (Toronto time) on October 11, 2006 at 1 First Canadian Place, Suite 6300, 100 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario. The meetings were adjourned as part of an agreement between Barclays Canada and Brompton to extend the closing date for the transaction to October 27, 2006 from September 29, 2006.

Unitholders who have already completed and returned a voting instruction form voting their units need not take any further action. Unitholders who have not yet voted their units will be able to do so until 5 p.m. (Toronto time) on October 5, 2006.