Company: SWZ
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000894189-25-000129
Chunk: 55

Company: Total Return Securities Fund
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 55
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. Any loss in the market price of securities loaned by the Fund that occurs during the term of the loan would be borne by the Fund and would adversely affect the Fund’s performance. Also, there may be delays in recovery, or no recovery, of securities loaned or even a loss of rights in the collateral should the borrower of the securities fail financially while the loan is outstanding. The Fund would not have the right to vote any securities having voting rights during the existence of the loan. Discount Risk.Historically, our shares, as well as those of other 1940 Act registered and listed closed-end investment companies, have frequently traded at a discount to their NAV. The 1940 Act restricts the ability of closed-end investment companies to sell common stock at a discount to NAV. Any premium or discount to NAV may fluctuate. B -7 EVERY VOTE IS IMPORTANT

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Please detach at perforation before mailing. PROXY CARD THE SWISS HELVETIA FUND, INC.
SPECIAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
TO BE HELD ON [●], 2025 THIS PROXY IS SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE SWISS HELVETIA FUND, INC. PURSUANT TO A SEPARATE NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS AND PROXY STATEMENT, DATED [●], 2025, RECEIPT OF WHICH IS HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGED. The undersigned hereby appoints [●,] Gerald Hellerman and Moritz A. Sell, and each of them, the true and lawful attorneys and Proxies, each with the power of substitution, for and in the name, place and