Company: TSI
Filing Date: 2025-08-08
Form Type: N-2
Source: 0001193125-25-177098
Chunk: 195

Company: TCW STRATEGIC INCOME FUND INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-08
Form: N-2
Chunk 195
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 suffer losses as a result of a cyber security breach related to the Fund, its service providers, trading counterparties or the issuers in which the Fund invests. Short-Term and Temporary Defensive InvestmentsAs described in the Prospectus, the Fund is authorized to temporarily invest a substantial amount, or even all, of its assets in various short-term fixed income securities to take a defensive position. Temporary defensive securities include:

| • |     | Short-Term Taxable Securities. The Fund may invest in bonds, the interest on which is subject to U.S. 
 federal income tax, and the Fund may be exempt from its state’s (if applicable) income tax.           |

| • |     | U.S. Government Securities. U.S. Government securities include securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S.                                                                                                                                          
 Government, its agencies, or government sponsored enterprises, including Treasury bills, notes, bonds, and certificates of indebtedness that are issued or guaranteed as to principal or interest by the U.S. Treasury or U.S. Government sponsored 
 enterprises.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |

| • |     | Commercial Paper. Commercial paper consists of unsecured promissory notes issued by corporations to                                                                                                                                                 
 finance short-term credit needs. Commercial paper is issued in bearer form with maturities generally not exceeding nine months. Commercial paper obligations may include variable amount master demand notes. Bank certificates of deposit and time 
 deposits. Certificates of deposit are certificates issued against funds deposited in a bank or a savings and loan. They are issued for a definite period of time and earn a specified rate of return.                                               |

| • |     | Bankers’ Acceptances. Bankers’ acceptances are short-term credit instruments                                                                                                                                                                             
 evidencing the obligation of a bank to pay a draft that has been drawn on it by a customer. These instruments reflect the obligations both of the bank and of the drawer to pay the face amount of the instrument upon maturity. They primarily are used 
 to finance the import, export, transfer, or storage of goods. They are “accepted” when a bank guarantees their payment at maturity.                                                                                                                      |

| • |     | Repurchase agreements with maturities of less than seven days. |

| • |     | Registered Money Market Funds. Certain money market funds may impose a fee upon the sale of shares or may             
 temporarily suspend the ability of investors to redeem shares if such fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums. |

| • |     | Comparable foreign fixed income securities. |

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