Company: SWZ
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000894189-25-000129
Chunk: 36

Company: Total Return Securities Fund
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 36
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 non-individual) and the number of shares owned and to confirm that the stockholder has received the Proxy Statement and Proxy in the mail. Any stockholder giving a Proxy may revoke it at any time before it is exercised by submitting a new Proxy to the Fund prior to the Meeting or by attending the Meeting and voting in person. HOUSEHOLDING Please note that only one Annual Report or most recent Semi-Annual Report or Proxy Statement may be delivered to two or more stockholders of the Fund who share an address, unless the Fund has received instructions to the contrary. To request a separate copy of an Annual Report or most recent Quarterly Report or Proxy Statement, or for instructions as to how to request a separate copy of such documents or how to request a single copy if multiple copies of such documents are received, stockholders should contact the Fund at the address and phone number set forth above. Pursuant to a request, a separate copy will be delivered promptly. VOTING RESULTS The Fund will advise stockholders of the voting results of the matters voted upon at the Meeting as soon as practicable following the Meeting. -23- IMPORTANT IN ORDER TO AVOID THE ADDITIONAL EXPENSE TO THE FUND OF FURTHER SOLICITATION, WE ASK FOR YOUR COOPERATION IN SUBMITTING YOUR PROXY PROMPTLY BY MAIL OR BY VOTING BY TELEPHONE OR THROUGH THE INTERNET IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE ENCLOSED PROXY. If you have any questions concerning this Proxy solicitation, please contact [●], Telephone Number: [●].

|                  | Rajeev Das |
| Dated: [●], 2025 | Secretary  |

-24- EXHIBITA

FORM OF INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENT INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT THIS INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT dated and effective as of ___, 2025 between [•], a Delaware corporation (herein referred to as the “Fund”), and Bulldog Investors, LLP, a Delaware limited liability partnership (herein referred to as the “Investment Manager”). WHEREAS, the Fund and the Investment Manager desire to enter into an investment management agreement whereby the terms of said agreement are set forth herein. NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants herein contained, it is agreed by the parties as follows: 1. APPOINTMENT OF INVESTMENT MANAGER. The Investment Manager hereby undertakes and agrees, upon the terms and conditions herein set forth, to provide overall investment