Company: GLU-PB
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001829126-25-001658
Chunk: 63

Company: GABELLI GLOBAL UTILITY & INCOME TRUST
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 63
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 are intended to limit the concentration of ownership and control of companies in these industries may prevent companies in which the Fund invests from making certain investments that they would otherwise make. Other regulations may cause Utilities Industry companies to incur substantial additional costs or lengthy delays in connection with the completion of capital investments or the introduction of new products or services to market. There are substantial differences between the regulatory practices and policies in various jurisdictions, and any given regulatory agency may make major shifts in policy from time to time. There is no assurance that regulatory authorities will, in the future, permit companies to implement rate increases or that such increases will be adequate to permit the payment of dividends on such issuer’s common stocks. Additionally, existing and possible future regulatory legislation may make it even more difficult for companies in the Utilities Industry to obtain adequate relief from rate regulation.

Regulatory considerations limit the percentage of the shares of a public utility or utility holding company held by a fund or by an adviser and its affiliates on behalf of all their clients. In particular, approval of the FERC under the Federal Power Act would generally be required for (i) the Fund to acquire and hold 10% or more of the voting securities of any publicly traded public utility or utility holding company, and (ii) for

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the Fund together with any affiliated fund or other affiliated entity to acquire and hold in the aggregate 20% or more of the voting securities of any publicly traded public utility or utility holding company. Other requirements for FERC or state utility commission approval of the acquisition of voting securities may apply as well. Apart from approval requirements with respect to acquisitions of voting securities, the Fund may choose to limit its ownership of public utility or utility holding company voting securities in order to avoid the imposition of regulatory requirements under federal or state law such as those that attend status as a “holding company” under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005.

Similarly, various types of ownership restrictions are imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”), on investment in media companies and cellular licensees. For example, the FCC’s broadcast and cable multiple-ownership and cross ownership rules, which apply to the radio, television, and cable industries, provide that investment advisers are deemed to have an “attributable” interest whenever the adviser has the right to determine how five percent or more of the issued and outstanding voting stock of a broadcast company or cable system operator may be voted. These rules limit the number of broadcast