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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 11pt; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;"><div style="font-weight:bolder;display:inline;">Principal Risks</div></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:Normal;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">As is the case with all exchange-listed closed-end funds, shares of this fund may trade at a discount or a premium to the fund’s net asset value (NAV). An investment in the fund is subject to investment and market risks, including the possible loss of the entire principal invested.</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:Normal;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">The fund’s main risks are listed below in alphabetical order, not in order of <div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;">importance</div>.</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none"><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Changing distribution level & return of capital risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> There is no guarantee prior distribution levels will be maintained, and distributions may include a substantial tax return of capital. A return of capital is the return of all or a portion of a shareholder’s investment in the fund.</div></div></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Credit and counterparty risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract, or a borrower of fund securities may not make timely payments or otherwise honor its obligations. U.S. government securities are subject to varying degrees of credit risk depending upon the nature of their support. A downgrade or default affecting any of the fund’s securities could affect the fund’s performance.</div></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Economic and market events risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Events in the U.S. and global financial markets, including actions taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve or foreign central banks to stimulate or stabilize economic growth, may at times result in unusually high market volatility, which could negatively impact performance. Reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets could adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial service companies could suffer losses if interest rates rise or economic conditions deteriorate.</div></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Equity securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> The price of equity securities may decline due to changes in a company’s financial condition or overall market conditions.</div></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">ESG integration risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> The manager considers ESG factors that it deems relevant or additive, along with other material factors and analysis, when managing the fund. The manager may consider these ESG factors on all or a meaningful portion of the fund’s investments. In certain situations, the extent to which these ESG factors may be applied according to the manager’s integrated investment process may not include U.S. Treasuries, government securities, or other asset classes. ESG factors may include, but are not limited to, matters regarding board diversity, climate change policies, and supply chain and human rights policies. Incorporating ESG criteria and making investment decisions based on certain ESG characteristics, as determined by the manager, carries the risk that the fund may perform differently, including underperforming funds that do not utilize ESG criteria or funds that utilize different ESG criteria. Integration of ESG factors into the fund’s investment process may result in a manager making different investments for the fund than for a fund with a similar investment universe and/or investment style that does not incorporate such considerations in its investment strategy or processes, and the fund’s investment performance may be affected. Because ESG factors are one of many considerations for the fund, the manager may nonetheless include companies with low ESG characteristics or exclude companies <div style="display:inline;">with </div>high ESG characteristics in the fund’s investments.</div></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none"><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none"><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none"><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Fixed-income securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity or duration of the bonds held by a fund, the more sensitive it will likely be to interest-rate fluctuations. An issuer may not make all interest payment or repay all or any of the principal borrowed. Changes in a security’s credit qualify may adversely affect fund performance. Additionally, the value of inflation-indexed securities is subject to the effects of changes in market interest rates caused by factors other than inflation (“real interest rates”). Generally, when real interest rates rise, the value of inflation-indexed securities will fall and the fund’s value may decline as a result of this exposure to these securities.</div></div></div></div></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Foreign securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Less information may be publicly available regarding foreign issuers, including foreign government issuers. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes and may be more volatile than U.S. securities. Currency fluctuations and political and economic developments may adversely impact the value of foreign securities.</div></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none"><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none"><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none"><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none"><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none"><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Hedging, derivatives, and other strategic transactions risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Hedging, derivatives, and other strategic transactions may increase a fund’s volatility and could produce disproportionate losses, potentially more than the fund’s principal investment. Risks of these transactions are different from and possibly greater than risks of investing directly in securities and other traditional instruments. Under certain market conditions, derivatives could become harder to value or sell and may become subject to liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions). Derivatives and other strategic transactions that the fund intends to utilize include: foreign currency</div><div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:Normal;line-height:11pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">forward contracts, credit default swaps, futures contracts, options, foreign currency swaps, interest-rate swaps, swaps, and reverse repurchase agreements. Foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, options, and swaps generally are subject to counterparty risk. In addition, swaps may be subject to interest-rate and settlement risk, and the risk of default of the underlying reference obligation. Derivatives associated with foreign currency transactions are subject to currency risk. An event of default or insolvency of the counterparty to a reverse repurchase agreement could result in delays or restrictions with respect to the fund’s ability to dispose of the underlying securities. In addition, a reverse repurchase agreement may be considered a form of leverage and may, therefore, increase fluctuations in the fund’s NAV.</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Illiquid and restricted securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Illiquid and restricted securities may be difficult to value and may involve greater risks than liquid securities. Illiquidity may have an adverse impact on a particular security’s market price and the fund’s ability to sell the security.</div></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Leveraging risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Issuing preferred shares or using derivatives may result in a leveraged portfolio. Leveraging long exposures increases a fund’s losses when the value of its investments declines. Some derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the initial investment. The fund also utilizes a Liquidity Agreement to increase its assets available for investment. See “Note 7 — Leverage risk” above.</div></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Liquidity risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> The extent (if at all) to which a security may be sold or a derivative position closed without negatively impacting its market value may be impaired by reduced market activity or participation, legal restrictions, or other economic and market impediments. Widespread selling of fixed-income securities during periods of reduced demand may adversely impact the price or salability of such securities.</div></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Lower-rated and high-yield fixed-income securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Lower-rated and high-yield fixed-income securities (junk bonds) are subject to greater credit quality risk, risk of default, and price volatility than higher-rated fixed-income securities, may be considered speculative, and can be difficult to resell.</div></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate, and other market risks. Factors that impact the value of these securities include interest rate changes, the reliability of available information, credit quality or enhancement, and market perception.</div></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Operational and cybersecurity risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Cybersecurity breaches may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to fund assets, customer data, or proprietary information, or cause a fund or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality. Similar incidents affecting issuers of a fund’s securities may negatively impact performance. Operational risk may arise from human error, error by third parties, communication errors, or technology failures, among other causes.</div></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Preferred and convertible securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Preferred stock dividends are payable only if declared by the issuer’s board. Preferred stock may be subject to redemption provisions. The market values of convertible securities tend to fall as interest rates rise and rise as interest rates fall. Convertible preferred stock’s value can depend heavily upon the underlying common stock’s value.</div></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none"><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none"><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none"><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none"><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">U.S. Government agency obligations risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> U.S. government-sponsored entities such as Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) and the Federal Home Loan Banks, although chartered or sponsored by Congress, are not funded by congressional appropriations and the debt securities that they issue are neither guaranteed nor issued by the U.S. government. Such debt securities are subject to the risk of default on the payment of interest and/or principal, similar to the debt securities of private issuers. The maximum potential liability of the issuers of some U.S. government obligations may greatly exceed their current resources, including any legal right to support from the U.S. government. Although the U.S. government has provided financial support to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the past, there can be no assurance that it will support these or other government-sponsored entities in the future.</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Credit and counterparty risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract, or a borrower of fund securities may not make timely payments or otherwise honor its obligations. U.S. government securities are subject to varying degrees of credit risk depending upon the nature of their support. A downgrade or default affecting any of the fund’s securities could affect the fund’s performance.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Economic and market events risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Events in the U.S. and global financial markets, including actions taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve or foreign central banks to stimulate or stabilize economic growth, may at times result in unusually high market volatility, which could negatively impact performance. Reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets could adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial service companies could suffer losses if interest rates rise or economic conditions deteriorate.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Equity securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> The price of equity securities may decline due to changes in a company’s financial condition or overall market conditions.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">ESG integration risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> The manager considers ESG factors that it deems relevant or additive, along with other material factors and analysis, when managing the fund. The manager may consider these ESG factors on all or a meaningful portion of the fund’s investments. In certain situations, the extent to which these ESG factors may be applied according to the manager’s integrated investment process may not include U.S. Treasuries, government securities, or other asset classes. ESG factors may include, but are not limited to, matters regarding board diversity, climate change policies, and supply chain and human rights policies. Incorporating ESG criteria and making investment decisions based on certain ESG characteristics, as determined by the manager, carries the risk that the fund may perform differently, including underperforming funds that do not utilize ESG criteria or funds that utilize different ESG criteria. Integration of ESG factors into the fund’s investment process may result in a manager making different investments for the fund than for a fund with a similar investment universe and/or investment style that does not incorporate such considerations in its investment strategy or processes, and the fund’s investment performance may be affected. Because ESG factors are one of many considerations for the fund, the manager may nonetheless include companies with low ESG characteristics or exclude companies <div style="display:inline;">with </div>high ESG characteristics in the fund’s investments.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none"><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Fixed-income securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity or duration of the bonds held by a fund, the more sensitive it will likely be to interest-rate fluctuations. An issuer may not make all interest payment or repay all or any of the principal borrowed. Changes in a security’s credit qualify may adversely affect fund performance. Additionally, the value of inflation-indexed securities is subject to the effects of changes in market interest rates caused by factors other than inflation (“real interest rates”). Generally, when real interest rates rise, the value of inflation-indexed securities will fall and the fund’s value may decline as a result of this exposure to these securities.</div></div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Foreign securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Less information may be publicly available regarding foreign issuers, including foreign government issuers. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes and may be more volatile than U.S. securities. Currency fluctuations and political and economic developments may adversely impact the value of foreign securities.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Hedging, derivatives, and other strategic transactions risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Hedging, derivatives, and other strategic transactions may increase a fund’s volatility and could produce disproportionate losses, potentially more than the fund’s principal investment. Risks of these transactions are different from and possibly greater than risks of investing directly in securities and other traditional instruments. Under certain market conditions, derivatives could become harder to value or sell and may become subject to liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions). Derivatives and other strategic transactions that the fund intends to utilize include: foreign currency</div><div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"></div></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:Normal;line-height:11pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">forward contracts, credit default swaps, futures contracts, options, foreign currency swaps, interest-rate swaps, swaps, and reverse repurchase agreements. Foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, options, and swaps generally are subject to counterparty risk. In addition, swaps may be subject to interest-rate and settlement risk, and the risk of default of the underlying reference obligation. Derivatives associated with foreign currency transactions are subject to currency risk. An event of default or insolvency of the counterparty to a reverse repurchase agreement could result in delays or restrictions with respect to the fund’s ability to dispose of the underlying securities. In addition, a reverse repurchase agreement may be considered a form of leverage and may, therefore, increase fluctuations in the fund’s NAV.</div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Illiquid and restricted securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Illiquid and restricted securities may be difficult to value and may involve greater risks than liquid securities. Illiquidity may have an adverse impact on a particular security’s market price and the fund’s ability to sell the security.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Leveraging risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Issuing preferred shares or using derivatives may result in a leveraged portfolio. Leveraging long exposures increases a fund’s losses when the value of its investments declines. Some derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the initial investment. The fund also utilizes a Liquidity Agreement to increase its assets available for investment. See “Note 7 — Leverage risk” above.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Liquidity risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> The extent (if at all) to which a security may be sold or a derivative position closed without negatively impacting its market value may be impaired by reduced market activity or participation, legal restrictions, or other economic and market impediments. Widespread selling of fixed-income securities during periods of reduced demand may adversely impact the price or salability of such securities.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Lower-rated and high-yield fixed-income securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Lower-rated and high-yield fixed-income securities (junk bonds) are subject to greater credit quality risk, risk of default, and price volatility than higher-rated fixed-income securities, may be considered speculative, and can be difficult to resell.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate, and other market risks. Factors that impact the value of these securities include interest rate changes, the reliability of available information, credit quality or enhancement, and market perception.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Operational and cybersecurity risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Cybersecurity breaches may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to fund assets, customer data, or proprietary information, or cause a fund or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality. Similar incidents affecting issuers of a fund’s securities may negatively impact performance. Operational risk may arise from human error, error by third parties, communication errors, or technology failures, among other causes.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Preferred and convertible securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Preferred stock dividends are payable only if declared by the issuer’s board. Preferred stock may be subject to redemption provisions. The market values of convertible securities tend to fall as interest rates rise and rise as interest rates fall. Convertible preferred stock’s value can depend heavily upon the underlying common stock’s value.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none"><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">U.S. Government agency obligations risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> U.S. government-sponsored entities such as Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) and the Federal Home Loan Banks, although chartered or sponsored by Congress, are not funded by congressional appropriations and the debt securities that they issue are neither guaranteed nor issued by the U.S. government. Such debt securities are subject to the risk of default on the payment of interest and/or principal, similar to the debt securities of private issuers. The maximum potential liability of the issuers of some U.S. government obligations may greatly exceed their current resources, including any legal right to support from the U.S. government. Although the U.S. government has provided financial support to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the past, there can be no assurance that it will support these or other government-sponsored entities in the future.</div></div></div>