DHFT Diamond Hill Finl (MM)

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Diamond Hill Financial Trends Fund, Inc. (NASDAQ: DHFT) announced today that it will hold a special meeting of shareholders on November 14, 2012.  The purpose of the special meeting is to seek the views of the Fund's shareholders, via a non-binding advisory vote, on whether the Fund should continue to operate as a closed-end financial services fund or whether the Board of Directors should consider liquidating the Fund.  Shareholders of record on September 7, 2012 will be entitled to notice of, and vote at, the special meeting.

About the Fund:

Diamond Hill Financial Trends Fund, Inc. is a diversified, closed-end fund.  The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing in stocks of U.S. financial services companies of any size and by typically maintaining long positions between 80% and 115% of its assets and short positions between 0% and 25% of its assets.

SOURCE Diamond Hill Financial Trends Fund, Inc.