Company: TSI
Filing Date: 2025-10-06
Form Type: N-2/A
Source: 0001193125-25-232082
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Company: TCW STRATEGIC INCOME FUND INC
Filing Date: 2025-10-06
Form: N-2/A
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 timing and method of allocations, and addresses how the firm handles affiliate transactions. The respective Equity and Fixed Income Trading and Allocation Committees review trading activities on behalf of client accounts, including the allocation of investment opportunities and address any issues with regard to side-by-side managementin order to ensure that all of TCW’s clients are treated on a fair and equitable basis. Further, the Portfolio Analytics Committee reviews TCW’s investment strategies, evaluates various analytics to facilitate risk assessment, changes to performance composites and benchmarks and monitors the implementation and maintenance of the Global Investment Performance Standards or GIPS ®compliance. TCW’s approach to handling conflicts of interest is multi-layered starting with its policies and procedures, reporting and pre-clearance processesand oversight by various committees. PORTFOLIO TRANSACTIONS AND BROKERAGE ALLOCATION The Adviser is responsible for the placement of the Fund’s portfolio transactions and the negotiation of prices and commissions, if any, with respect to such transactions. Debt, convertible and unlisted equity securities are generally purchased from a primary market maker acting as principal on a net basis without a stated commission but at prices generally reflecting a dealer spread. Listed equity securities are normally purchased through brokers in transactions executed on securities exchanges involving negotiated commissions. Debt, convertible and equity securities are also purchased in underwritten offerings at fixed prices which include discounts to underwriters and/or concessions to dealers. In placing a portfolio transaction, the Adviser seeks to obtain the best execution for the Fund, taking into account such factors as price (including the applicable dealer spread or commission, if any), size of order, difficulty of execution and operational facilities of the firm involved and the firm’s risk in positioning a block of securities. -42-

Consistent with its policy of securing best execution, in selecting broker-dealers and negotiating any commissions or prices involved in Fund transactions, the Adviser considers the range and quality of the professional services provided by such firms. Brokerage services include the ability to most effectively execute large orders without adversely impacting markets and positioning securities in order to enable the Adviser to effect orderly purchases or sales for the Fund. Accordingly, transactions will not always be executed at the lowest available commission. In addition, the Adviser may effect transactions which cause the Fund to pay a commission in excess of a commission which another broker-dealer would have charged if the Adviser first determines that such commission is reasonable in relation to the value of the brokerage and research services provided by the broker-dealer. In some cases, research is provided directly by an executing broker-dealer and in other