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21.06.2010 23:30:00

OLA Announces New Investment Sub-Adviser, Fund Name, Ticker Symbol and Other Changes

(NYSE: OLA) Old Mutual/Claymore Long-Short Fund (the "Fund”) announces that the Fund’s name and NYSE ticker symbol have changed to Guggenheim Enhanced Equity Income Fund (NYSE: GPM), effective following the close of business on June 21, 2010. Additionally, the Fund’s CUSIP has changed to 40167B100.

On April 21, 2010, the Fund announced that the Board of Trustees of the Fund approved the termination of the investment sub-advisory agreement among the Fund, Claymore Advisors, LLC, the Fund’s investment adviser ("Claymore”) and Analytic Investors, Inc. and approved the appointment of a new investment sub-adviser to the Fund, Guggenheim Partners Asset Management, LLC ("GPAM”). Pursuant to this appointment, GPAM entered into an interim investment sub-advisory agreement (the "Interim Sub-Advisory Agreement”) with the Fund and Claymore, which will be in effect for an interim period of up to 150 days pending shareholder approval of a new investment sub-advisory agreement among the Fund, Claymore and GPAM (the "New Sub-Advisory Agreement”). The Fund intends to submit the New Sub-Advisory Agreement to shareholders for approval at the annual meeting of shareholders of the Fund currently scheduled for July 19, 2010.

The Fund will continue to seek its primary investment objective of seeking a high level of current income and gains with a secondary objective of long-term capital appreciation. The Fund’s investment strategy under its previous investment sub-adviser sought to achieve this investment objective through a long-short strategy and an opportunistic covered call writing strategy. GPAM will seek to achieve the Fund’s investment objective by obtaining broadly diversified exposure to the equity markets and utilizing a covered call strategy which will follow GPAM’s proprietary dynamic rules-based methodology to seek to utilize efficiencies from the tax characteristics of the Fund’s portfolio. The Fund will seek to earn income and gains both from dividends paid by the securities owned by the Fund and cash premiums received from selling options.

In connection with the implementation of GPAM’s strategy, the Fund intends to utilize financial leverage. The goal of the use of financial leverage is to enhance shareholder value, consistent with the Fund’s investment objective, and provide superior risk-adjusted returns. The Fund may utilize financial leverage up to the limits imposed by the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Fund’s use of financial leverage is intended to be flexible in nature and will be monitored and adjusted, as appropriate, on an ongoing basis by Claymore and GPAM. Under current market conditions, the Fund initially intends to utilize financial leverage in an amount not to exceed 30% of the Fund’s total assets (including the proceeds of such financial leverage) at the time utilized. The Fund expects to employ financial leverage through the issuance of senior securities represented by indebtedness, including through bank borrowing by the Fund or issuance by the Fund of notes, commercial paper or other forms of debt and/or the use of transactions and derivative instruments that have characteristics similar to senior securities.

The Fund’s proxy statement for the annual meeting of shareholders will contain additional information regarding GPAM, the Fund’s investment strategy and the New Sub-Advisory Agreement and GPAM. Promptly after filings its definitive proxy statement for the annual meeting with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC”), the Fund will mail the definitive proxy statement and a proxy card to each shareholder entitled to vote at the annual meeting of shareholders. WE URGE SHAREHOLDERS TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT (INCLUDING ANY SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS THAT THE FUND WILL FILE WITH THE SEC WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Shareholders will be able to obtain, free of charge, copies of the proxy statement and any other documents filed by the Fund with the SEC in connection with the annual meeting of shareholders at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov, by calling 800-345-7999 or by writing the Fund at 2455 Corporate West Drive, Lisle, Illinois 60532.

For additional information, please visit www.claymore.com/GPM.

Management Fees

Effective April 20, 2010, Claymore and the Fund contractually agreed to a permanent ten (10) basis point reduction in the advisory fee, such that the Fund pays to Claymore an investment advisory fee at an annual rate equal to 0.90% of the average daily value of the Fund’s total managed assets.

Both Claymore and GPAM are indirect subsidiaries of Guggenheim Partners, LLC ("Guggenheim”), a diversified financial services firm. Commencing as of the date of the Interim Sub-Advisory Agreement and, pending Fund shareholder approval, continuing during the term of the New Sub-Advisory Agreement and for so long as the investment sub-adviser of the Fund is an affiliate of Claymore, Claymore has agreed to waive an additional ten (10) basis points of the advisory fee, such that the Fund will pay to Claymore an investment advisory fee at an annual rate equal to 0.80% of the average daily value of the Fund’s total managed assets.

GPAM

GPAM is an investment manager specializing in innovative investment strategies that aim to add alpha relative to benchmarks in both up and down markets. GPAM's investment philosophy is predicated upon the belief that thorough research and independent thought are rewarded with performance that has the potential to outperform benchmark indexes with both lower volatility and lower correlation of returns over time as compared to such benchmark indexes. GPAM manages more than $50 billion in investments for foundations, insurance companies and other institutions.

Portfolio Management Team

The portfolio management personnel of the Sub-Adviser who are primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio are: Robert Daviduk, Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager of the Sub-Adviser; Jayson Flowers, Managing Director of the Sub-Adviser; Jamal Pesaran, Portfolio Sector Manager of the Sub-Adviser; Farhan Sharaff, Assistant Chief Investment Officer, Equities of the Sub-Adviser; and Scott Minerd, Chief Investment Officer of the Sub-Adviser. Robert Daviduk serves as the lead portfolio manager of the Fund. The portfolio management personnel primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio are supported by a team of equity analysts and risk managers.

Robert Daviduk. Bob Daviduk is a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager in the fixed-income group at Guggenheim and has over 25 years of portfolio management experience. He is a member of the Portfolio Construction Group and is the lead portfolio manager for several client portfolios. Prior to joining Guggenheim in 2006, Mr. Daviduk was a Partner and COO at Global Fixed-Income Partners, LLC (2005-2006), a money manager and hedge fund. At Wells Capital Management (2002-2005), Mr. Daviduk was a Managing Director and headed several investment teams responsible for the management of $25 billion of fixed income assets across a full range of durations, asset classes and credit qualities. Before that, Mr. Daviduk was a Senior Vice President at Banc of America Capital Management, where he headed the firm’s structured product investments effort and earlier in his tenure he served as a portfolio generalist responsible for managing numerous portfolios with significant allocations to corporate and cross-over credits. Mr. Daviduk managed the Nation’s Short-Term Bond Fund, which was ranked in the top 10% of all funds in its peer group. He also has managed municipal, high-yield, investment-grade and nondollar securities at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. Mr. Daviduk earned his MBA in Finance and International Business from New York University in 1992, where he graduated first in his class, and earned his BS in Business Administration and Accounting from Bucknell University in 1984.

Jayson Flowers. Mr. Flowers joined the Sub-Adviser in 2001, and serves as the Managing Director of GPAM, heading Guggenheim’s Equity and Derivative Strategies. Mr. Flowers has more than 15 years experience in the financial markets with concentration in risk management and trading across various sectors of the capital structure. His investment experience ranges in expertise from structured product investments and asset backed securities, to trading U.S. Government agencies, foreign sovereign debt, commodities, indexed futures, derivative and global equity arbitrage. Prior to working for the Sub-Adviser, Mr. Flowers was a co-founder and partner of Adventure Capital, a boutique venture capital and merchant banking company. Previously Mr. Flowers was at Credit Suisse First Boston, Dominick & Dominick Inc., and Coopers & Lybrand. Mr. Flowers holds a BA in Economics from Union College.

Jamal Pesaran. Mr. Pesaran is a Portfolio Sector Manager covering equity and equity derivatives strategies. Prior to joining the Sub-Adviser, he was with Lehman Brothers (2005-2007) and then HSBC Securities (2007-2008) in equity derivatives sales covering hedge fund clients for the US and Pacific Rim markets. Mr. Pesaran was an options market-maker and portfolio manager from 1996-2004 notably with Goldman Sachs’ Hull Trading Group (1998-2001) and UBS Investment Bank (2002-2004) in London and Frankfurt, respectively. Mr. Pesaran holds his MBA from UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Bristol University (U.K.). Mr. Pesaran joined Guggenheim in 2008.

Farhan Sharaff. Mr. Sharaff is the Assistant Chief Investment Officer, Equities of GPAM. Mr. Sharaff has more than 20 years of experience in investment research and investment management. Prior to joining the Sub-Adviser in June of 2009, he was a Partner and Chief Investment Officer at MJX Capital Advisors (2004-2009), a wealth management firm focused on providing advice and investment management for its clients, especially in the traditional and alternative asset classes. Prior to that, Mr. Sharaff served as the global Chief Investment Officer at CIGNA Corporation (2003-2004), Zurich Scudder Investments (1999-2003) and Citigroup (1984-1999). In all of the above engagements, Mr. Sharaff was responsible for research, investment management, product development and investment risk management. He was also a member of the business management teams at Citigroup and Zurich Scudder. Mr. Sharaff has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Aston (U.K.) and an MBA in Finance from the Manchester Business School (U.K.). In addition, Mr. Sharaff sits on boards for CITIC Capital Asset Management, Clarfeld Financial Advisors, and Transparent Value Trust.

Scott Minerd. Since 2001, Mr. Minerd has served as Chief Investment Officer of the Sub-Adviser, guiding the investment strategies of the sector portfolio managers. He was formerly a Managing Director with Credit Suisse First Boston in charge of trading and risk management for the Fixed Income Credit Trading Group. In this position, he was responsible for the corporate bond, preferred stock, money markets, U.S. government agency and sovereign debt, derivatives securities, structured debt and interest-rate swaps trading business units. Previously, Mr. Minerd was Morgan Stanley’s London-based European Capital Markets Products Trading and Risk Manager responsible for Eurobonds, Euro-MTNs, domestic European Bonds, FRNs, derivative securities and money market products in 12 European currencies and Asian markets. Mr. Minerd has also held capital markets positions with Merrill Lynch and Continental Bank and was a Certified Public Accountant working for Price Waterhouse. Mr. Minerd holds a BS degree in Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and has completed graduate work at both the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Guggenheim is a global diversified financial services firm with more than $100 billion in assets under supervision. Guggenheim, through its affiliates, provides investment management, investment advisory, insurance, investment banking, and capital markets services. The firm is headquartered in Chicago and New York with a global network of offices throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Claymore Securities, Inc. is an innovator in exchange-traded funds, unit investment trusts and closed-end funds, and often leads its peers with creative investment strategy solutions. In total, Claymore entities provide supervision, management, or servicing on approximately $15.9 billion in assets as of March 31, 2010. Claymore Securities currently offers closed-end funds, unit investment trusts and exchange-traded funds. Registered investment products are sold by prospectus only and investors should read the prospectus carefully before investing. For secondary market closed-end funds, investors should read shareholder reports and press releases for updated fund information. Additional information regarding Claymore’s closed-end funds is available at www.claymore.com/CEF.

This information does not represent an offer to sell securities of the Fund and it is not soliciting an offer to buy securities of the Fund, nor is it a solicitation of any proxy. There can be no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective. The net asset value of the Fund will fluctuate with the value of the underlying securities. It is important to note that closed-end funds trade on their market value, not net asset value, and closed-end funds often trade at a discount to their net asset value. Past performance is not indicative of future performance.

An investment in the Fund is subject to certain risks and other considerations. Such risks and considerations include, but are not limited to: Equity Securities and Related Market Risk, Other Investment Companies Risk, Options Risk, Other Derivatives Risk, Counterparty Risk, Medium and Smaller Company Risk, Financial Leverage Risk, Foreign Investment Risk, Inflation/Deflation Risk, Management Risk, Portfolio Turnover Risk, Recent Market Developments Risk, Government Intervention in Financial Markets Risk, Legislation Risk, Market Disruption and Geopolitical Risk and Anti-Takeover Provisions Risk.

Investors should consider the investment objectives and policies, risk considerations, charges and expenses of the Fund carefully before they invest. For this and more information, please contact a securities representative or Claymore Securities, Inc., 2455 Corporate West Drive, Lisle, Illinois 60532, 800-345-7999.

Member FINRA/SIPC (6/10)

NOT FDIC-INSURED | NOT BANK-GUARANTEED | MAY LOSE VALUE

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