Company: JPC
Filing Date: 2025-06-12
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001999371-25-007638
Chunk: 14

Company: Nuveen Preferred & Income Opportunities Fund
Filing Date: 2025-06-12
Form: 424B3
Chunk 14
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 each Fund will furnish, without charge, a copy of its most recent Annual Report or Semi-Annual Report to a shareholder upon request. Any such request should be directed to the Funds by calling (800) 257-8787 or by writing the Funds at 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606.

The Funds are subject to the informational requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”), and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), and in accordance therewith file reports and other information with the SEC. Reports, proxy statements, registration statements and other information filed by the Funds, including the Registration Statement on Form N-14 relating to the common shares of the Acquiring Fund of which this Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus is a part, may be obtained through the EDGAR database on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. You may obtain copies of this information, with payment of a duplication fee, by electronic request at the following email address: publicinfo@sec.gov.

Reports, proxy statements and other information concerning the Funds can be inspected at the offices of the NYSE, 11 Wall Street, New York, New York 10005.

This Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus serves as a prospectus of the Acquiring Fund in connection with the issuance of the Acquiring Fund common shares in the Merger. In this connection, no person has been authorized to give any information or make any representation not contained in this Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus and, if so given or made, such information or representation must not be relied upon as having been authorized. This Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities in any jurisdiction in which, or to any person to whom, it is unlawful to make such offer or solicitation.

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JOINT PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS

June 11, 2025

NUVEEN PREFERRED SECURITIES & INCOME OPPORTUNITIES FUND (JPI)
AND
NUVEEN PREFERRED & INCOME OPPORTUNITIES FUND (JPC)

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| PROPOSAL NO. 1—MERGER OF THE TARGET FUND INTO THE ACQUIRING FUND                           |     |    1 |
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