Company: NPFD
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: N-CSRS
Source: 0001193125-25-073013
Chunk: 282

Company: Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred & Income Fund
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: N-CSRS
Chunk 282
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’s

common

stock

received

by

the

Acquiring

Fund

will

have

likely

declined,

perhaps

substantially,

and

may

continue

to

decline

after

conversion.

CoCos

rated

below

investment

grade

should

be

considered

high

yield

securities,

or

“junk,”

but

often

are

issued

by

entities

whose

more

senior

securities

are

rated

investment

grade.

CoCos

are

a

relatively

new

type

of

security;

and

there

is

a

risk

that

CoCo

security

issuers

may

suffer

the

sort

of

future

### financial
distress

that

could

materially

increase

the

likelihood

(or

the

market’s

perception

of

the

likelihood)

that

an

automatic

write-down

or

conversion

event

on

those

issuers’

CoCoswill

occur.

Additionally,

the

trading

behavior

of

a

given

issuer’s

CoCo

may

be

strongly

impacted

by

the

trading

behavior

of

other

issuers’

CoCos,

such

that

negative

information

from

an

unrelated

CoCo

security

may

cause

a

decline

in

value

of

one

or

more

CoCos

held

by

the

Fund.

Accordingly,

the

trading

behavior

of

CoCos

may

not

follow

the

trading

behavior

of

other

types

of

debt

and

preferred

securities.

Despite

these

concerns,

the

prospective

reward

vs.

risk

characteristics

of

at

least

certain

CoCos

may

be

very

attractive

relative

to

other

fixed-income

alternatives.

Duration:

Duration

is

a

measure

of

the

expected

period

over

which

a

bond’s

principal

and

interest

will

be

paid,

and

consequently

is

a

measure

of

the

sensitivity

of

a

bond’s

or

bond

fund’s

value

to

changes

when

market

interest

rates