First Trust Announces Adjournment of Special Shareholder Meeting to Approve the Reorganization of First Trust Mega Cap AlphaDEX® Fund into First Trust Dow 30 Equal Weight ETF

WHEATON, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--First Trust Advisors L.P. (“FTA”) announced today that the joint special meeting of shareholders of First Trust Mega Cap AlphaDEX® Fund (Nasdaq: FMK), a series of First Trust Exchange-Traded AlphaDEX® Fund, and First Trust Dow 30 Equal Weight ETF (NYSE Arca: EDOW), a series of First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund, has been adjourned in order to allow shareholders additional time to vote on the reorganization transaction whereby FMK will be combined with EDOW, and to permit additional solicitation of shareholders. The shareholder meeting will reconvene on Monday, November 9, 2020 at 12:15 p.m. Central time at the offices of FTA at 120 East Liberty Drive, Suite 400, in Wheaton, Illinois.