Company: SWZ
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000894189-25-000129
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Company: Total Return Securities Fund
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form: PRE 14A
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 Fund to make short sales of securities for hedging purposes; and |

4.To consider and act upon any other business as may properly come before the Meeting or any adjournment thereof. The Fund’s Board of Directors has fixed the close of business on January 24, 2025 as the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at the Meeting or any adjournments or postponements thereof. You are cordially invited to attend the Meeting. Whether or not you intend to attend the Meeting, please vote by completing, signing and dating and returning the enclosed Proxy. Please see the enclosed Proxy for additional instructions on how to vote by telephone or through the Internet. The enclosed Proxy is being solicited by the Fund’s Board of Directors. By Order of the Board of Directors,

|                  | Rajeev Das |
| Dated: [●], 2025 | Secretary  |

| IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING THE AVAILABILITY OF PROXY MATERIALS                                                                                                                                             
 The Notice, Proxy Statement and Form of Proxy for the Fund also are available to you on the Fund’s website at www.swzfund.com.  You are encouraged to review all of the information contained in the Proxy 
 materials before voting.  For directions to the Meeting, please call the Fund at [●] or [●] at [●].                                                                                                        |

THE SWISS HELVETIA FUND, INC.
615 East Michigan Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 SPECIAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

[●], 2025 PROXY STATEMENT INTRODUCTION This Proxy Statement is furnished by the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of The Swiss Helvetia Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”) in connection with the solicitation of Proxies for use at the Special Meeting of Stockholders (the “Meeting”), to be held on [●], 2025, at the offices of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, 535 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10022. The purpose of the Meeting and the matters to be acted upon are set forth in the accompanying Notice of Special Meeting of Stockholders. It is expected that the Notice of Special Meeting of Stockholders, Proxy Statement and form of Proxy will first be mailed to stockholders of record on or about [●], 2025. About the Fund The Fund is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) as a closed-end investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “194