Article: AVK Declares Dividend and Announces At-Par Redemption Notices for $13 Million of Auction Market Preferred Shares.

LISLE, Ill. -- Advent Claymore Convertible Securities and Income Fund (NYSE: AVK), a diversified closed-end management investment company, has declared its December monthly dividend of $0.0939 per share, reflecting a reduction of $0.0779 per share from the previous dividend. This represents an annualized distribution rate of 11.17% based upon the last closing market price of $10.09, as of November 28, 2008.

The Fund's management believes that reducing the distribution is a necessary step to enhance our ability to maintain and potentially grow the Fund's net asset value--which should benefit the Fund's shareholders over time.

The Fund's management also ...

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