Tocqueville Opportunity Fund

Thomas Vandeventer, Managing Director, is a Portfolio Manager at Tocqueville Asset Management L.P.  Mr. Vandeventer joined Tocqueville in 2006 and is the portfolio manager of the Tocqueville Opportunity Fund.  Prior to joining Tocqueville, Mr. Vandeventer was Senior Managing Director and head of the Institutional Large Cap Growth group at Clearbridge Advisors (Legg Mason) and Citigroup Global Asset Management (CAM); he was responsible for the investment of pension, foundation and endowment funds.  Mr. Vandeventer also managed portfolios for high net worth clients and trusts in equity and balanced accounts.  Mr. Vandeventer remained with the same investment management group for twenty years, having joined Shearson Asset Management (American Express Company) in 1986.  He worked in Real Estate Finance as an Associate at UBS from 1983 through 1985. Mr. Vandeventer earned his B.A. from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.