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SCHEDULE 14A
INFORMATION
Proxy Statement
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Material Pursuant to Section 240.14a-12
AMCAP Fund,
Inc.
American Balanced
Fund, Inc.
The American Funds
Income Series
American Funds
Money Market Fund
American Funds
Short-Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund
American Funds
Target Date Retirement Series, Inc.
The American Funds
Tax-Exempt Series I
The American Funds
Tax-Exempt Series II
American
High-Income Municipal Bond Fund, Inc.
American
High-Income Trust
American Mutual
Fund, Inc.
The Bond Fund of
America, Inc.
Capital Income
Builder, Inc.
Capital World Bond
Fund, Inc.
Capital World
Growth and Income Fund, Inc.
EuroPacific Growth
Fund
Fundamental
Investors, Inc.
The Growth Fund of
America, Inc.
The Income Fund of
America, Inc.
Intermediate Bond
Fund of America
International
Growth and Income Fund, Inc.
The Investment
Company of America
Limited Term
Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America
The New Economy
Fund
New Perspective
Fund, Inc.
New World Fund,
Inc.
Short-Term Bond
Fund of America, Inc.
SMALLCAP World
Fund, Inc.
The Tax-Exempt Bond
Fund of America, Inc.
Washington Mutual
Investors Fund, Inc.
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IMPORTANT
REMINDER
Dear
Shareholder:
We
recently mailed you proxy materials relating to proposals to be voted on at a
Meeting of Shareholders of The American Funds, scheduled for October 27, 2009 or
November 24, 2009. This letter was sent because we have not received
your vote.
YOUR
VOTE IS IMPORTANT!
For the reasons set
forth in the proxy materials previously mailed to you, each Fund’s Board of
Directors/Trustees believes proposals 1-7, as applicable, are in the
shareholders’ best interest and unanimously recommends that you vote in
favor. The
Boards have recommended a vote against proposal 8.
We encourage you to
vote TODAY using one of
the following convenient options:
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Vote
Online. You may
cast your vote by logging onto the Web address listed on the enclosed
proxy card. Have your proxy card in hand in order to follow the
instructions given on the Web site.
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telephone]
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Vote
by Phone. You may cast your vote by calling the
toll-free number listed on the enclosed proxy card. Have your
proxy card in hand in order to follow the recorded
instructions.
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mailbox]
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Vote
by Mail. You may
cast your vote by mail by signing, dating and mailing the enclosed proxy
card in the postage-prepaid return envelope
provided.
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If you have any
questions about the proposals, you may call American Funds Service Company toll free at (800)
421-0180. As a reminder, you may receive a call from a
representative of Computershare Fund Services or D.F. King, the Funds’ proxy
solicitation firms, encouraging you to vote. When you provide
instructions to Computershare Fund Services or DF King by phone, they will be
authorized to deliver your proxy on your behalf.
Please note that you may have one or
more proxy cards to be signed and voted in the enclosed
envelope. You may receive more than one proxy kit with ballots
and/or voting instruction forms if you have investments within your brokerage
account in addition to investments held directly with American
Funds.
VOTING
TODAY HELPS YOUR FUND LOWER OVERALL PROXY COSTS
and
ELIMINATES PHONE CALLS