Company: TSI
Filing Date: 2025-08-08
Form Type: N-2
Source: 0001193125-25-177098
Chunk: 191

Company: TCW STRATEGIC INCOME FUND INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-08
Form: N-2
Chunk 191
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forward commitment basis.

The Fund may purchase or sell securities, including mortgage-backed securities, in the TBA market. A TBA
purchase commitment is a security that is purchased or sold for a fixed price and the underlying securities are announced at a future date. FINRA rules include mandatory margin requirements for the TBA market that require the Fund to post collateral
in connection with its TBA transactions. There is no similar requirement applicable to the Fund’s TBA counterparties although in practice, standard documentation for TBA transactions typically includes provisions requiring the bilateral
exchange of margin between parties. The collateralization of TBA trades could increase the cost of TBA transactions to the Fund and impose added operational complexity.

Securities of Other Investment Companies

Subject to the limitations prescribed by the 1940 Act, the Fund may invest in other investment companies, including, but not limited to, money
market funds, ETFs, closed-end funds, and other pooled vehicles. These limitations prohibit the Fund from acquiring more than 3% of the voting shares of any one other investment company, and prohibit the Fund
investing more than 5% of its total assets in the securities of any one other investment company or more than 10% of its total assets in securities of other investment companies in the aggregate. The percentage limitations above apply to investments
in any investment company. Pursuant to rules adopted by the SEC, the Fund may invest in excess of these limitations if the Fund and the investment company in which the Fund would like to invest comply with certain conditions. Certain of the
conditions do not apply if the Fund is investing in shares issued by affiliated funds. In addition, the Fund may invest in shares issued by money market funds, including certain unregistered money market funds, in excess of the limitations. The
Fund’s investments in another investment company will be subject to the risks of the purchased investment company’s portfolio securities. The Fund’s stockholders must bear not only their proportionate share of the Fund’s fees and
expenses, but they also must bear indirectly the fees and expenses of the other investment company.

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Private Placements and Restricted Securities

A private placement involves the sale of securities that have not been registered under the 1933 Act, or relevant provisions of applicable non-U.S. law, to certain institutional and qualified individual purchasers, such as the Fund. In addition to the general risks to which all securities are subject, securities received in a
private placement generally are subject to strict restrictions on resale, and there may be