Nuveen Fund Board Approves Closed-End Fund Investment Policy Changes and Recommends Fund Mergers
February 05 2016 - 8:20AM
Business Wire
Plans Seek to Enhance Income Potential and Provide Greater
Liquidity
Nuveen Investments, a leading global provider of investment
services to institutions as well as individual investors, today
announced that the Board of Trustees of nine Nuveen closed-end
funds has approved a change to the funds’ investment policies. As
result, each fund identified in the table below will reposition its
portfolio to achieve and consistently maintain a higher allocation
to municipal securities rated BBB and below to enhance the funds’
competitiveness and investor appeal and thereby improve the market
price at which the common shares trade relative to net asset value.
Effective immediately, each fund may, under its revised investment
policy, invest up to 35 percent of its portfolio in municipal
securities rated BBB and below. However, the funds each have
agreements related to outstanding preferred shares. These
agreements currently have covenants aligned with the funds’ prior
investment policy. Consequently, the funds will not be able to
immediately take full advantage of the enhanced flexibility of the
new investment policy. Those agreements may be amended in the
future.
Additionally, the funds’ Board of Trustees approved plans to
merge the funds in order to enhance the funds’ trading appeal and
lower operating expenses by creating single, larger funds with
distinct mandates.
The proposed fund mergers are as follows:
Acquired
Fund Symbol Acquiring Fund
Symbol Nuveen Premier Municipal Income Fund, Inc. NPF
Nuveen Dividend Advantage Municipal Fund, to be renamed
Nuveen Enhanced Quality Municipal Fund NAD Nuveen Premium
Income Municipal Fund, Inc. NPI Nuveen Select Quality Municipal
Fund, Inc. NQS Nuveen Investment Quality Municipal Fund, Inc.
NQM Nuveen Municipal Market
Opportunity Fund, Inc. NMO
Nuveen Dividend Advantage Municipal Income
Fund, to be renamed Nuveen Enhanced AMT-Free Municipal Quality
Fund
NEA Nuveen Premium Income Municipal Fund 2, Inc. NPM Nuveen
Performance Plus Municipal Fund, Inc. NPP
A Q&A posted on Nuveen’s web site provides a summary of the
investment policy changes and proposed mergers. Detailed
information on the proposals will be contained in the proxy
materials expected to be filed in the near future.
Nuveen Investments provides high-quality investment services
designed to help secure the long-term goals of institutional and
individual investors as well as the consultants and financial
advisors who serve them. Nuveen Investments markets a wide range of
specialized investment solutions which provide investors access to
capabilities of its high-quality boutique investment
affiliates—Nuveen Asset Management, LLC, Symphony Asset Management
LLC, NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, Santa Barbara Asset
Management, LLC, Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC, Winslow Capital
Management, LLC and Gresham Investment Management LLC, all of which
are registered investment advisers and independent investment
subsidiaries of Nuveen Investments, Inc. Funds distributed by
Nuveen Securities, LLC, a subsidiary of Nuveen Investments, Inc.
Nuveen Investments operates as a separate subsidiary within
TIAA-CREF, which is a leading provider of retirement and financial
services in the academic, research, medical and cultural fields. In
total, Nuveen Investments managed approximately $225 billion as of
December 31, 2015. For more information, please visit the Nuveen
Investments website at www.nuveen.com.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
Certain statements made in this release are forward-looking
statements. Actual future results or occurrences may differ
significantly from those anticipated in any forward-looking
statements due to numerous factors. These include, but are not
limited to:
o market developments;
o legal and regulatory developments; and
o other additional risks and
uncertainties.
Nuveen and the closed-end funds managed by Nuveen and its
affiliates undertake no responsibility to update publicly or revise
any forward-looking statements.
The Annual and Semi-Annual Reports and other regulatory filings
of the Nuveen closed-end funds with the Securities and Exchange
Commission ("SEC") are accessible on the SEC's web site at
www.sec.gov and on Nuveen's web site at www.nuveen.com/cef and may
discuss the above-mentioned or other factors that affect the Nuveen
closed-end funds.
This information does not constitute an offer for sale of any
securities. Shareholders and their financial advisors are urged to
read the joint proxy statement/prospectus carefully when it is
filed with the SEC in a few weeks, to find all important
information regarding the proposals. Investors should carefully
consider their investment objectives, risk tolerance, liquidity
needs and tax liabilities. There can be no assurance that any fund
will achieve its investment objectives.
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