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First Trust Specialty Finance & Financial Opportunities Fund as of 09/03/2010

NYSE / FGB

Asset Class: Sector Equity Funds

1 YR Lipper Avg: 20.55%

Growth of $10K
Graph reflects most recent month-end data.
Avg Annual Total Return %
	10 YR	5 YR	1 YR	YTD
Market Return	--	--	57.18%	27.65%
Lipper Pct. Rank	--	--	9	3

NAV Return	--	--	42.84%	18.49%
Lipper Pct. Rank	--	--	16	17

Premium/Discount History
Graph reflects most recent month-end data.
Premium/Discount
10 YR Avg	5 YR Avg	YTD Avg
--	--	-7.730%

NAV	$7.12	Market Price	$7.13
Net Change	$0.10	Market Change	$0.09
Premium/Discount			0.14%
1 YR NAV Return			42.840%
1 YR NAV Rank			16
12-Mo Yield as of 7/31/2010			Yield Def
Income Only Yield			13.36%
Distribution Yield (Market)			9.08%

Most Recent Income Dividend	$0.155
Ex-Div Date	8/18/2010
Most Recent Cap Gain Dividend	--
Ex-Div Date	--
Dividend Frequency	Quarterly
YTD Dividends	$0.295
YTD Capital Gains	--

Inception Date	5/24/2007
Fund Advisor	First Trust Advisors LP
Manager & Tenure	Team Managed
Phone	800-621-1675
Website	www.ftportfolios.com
Annual Report	Free Download
Total Net Assets (mil) as of 8/31/2010		$97.0
% Leveraged Assets as of 11/30/2009		15.16%
Portfolio Turnover		20.00%
Mgmt Fees		1.325%
Expense Ratio		2.290%

Fund Objective

The Fund seeks a high level of current income. The Fund seeks attractive total return as a secondary objective. Under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in a portfolio of securities of specialty finance and other financial companies.

Top Holdings (as of 5/31/2010)
Ares Capital Corp ORD	12.81%
MVC Capital Inc ORD	8.07%
PennantPark Investment Corp ORD	7.95%
Apollo Investment Corp ORD	6.68%
BlackRock Kelso Capital Corp ORD	6.37%
Annaly Capital ORD	5.98%
Solar Capital Ltd ORD	5.60%
Hercules Technology Growth Capital Inc ORD	4.98%
Gladstone Capital Corp ORD	4.92%
Prospect Capital Corp ORD	4.33%

Top Sectors (as of 5/31/2010)
Financials	102.60%
Non Classified Equity	10.97%
Health Care	0.70%
Oil & Gas	0.00%

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