Company: CLM
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001398344-25-004655
Chunk: 9

Company: Cornerstone Strategic Investment Fund, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 9
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B Accounting Standards Codification, the Fund has performed an analysis of all assets and liabilities measured at fair value to determine the significance and character of all inputs to their fair value determination.

The fair value hierarchy prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value into the following three broad categories:

| ● | Level 1 – quoted unadjusted prices for identical instruments in active markets to which the Fund has access at the date of measurement. |

| ● | Level 2 – quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets; quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active; and model-derived valuations in which all significant inputs and significant value drivers are observable in active markets. Level 2 inputs are those in markets for which there are few transactions, the prices are not current, little public information exists or instances where prices vary substantially over time or among brokered market makers. |

| ● | Level 3 – model derived valuations in which one or more significant inputs or significant value drivers are unobservable. Unobservable inputs are those inputs that reflect the Fund’s own assumptions that market participants would use to price the asset or liability based on the best available information. |

At the August 2, 2024 meeting of the Board of Directors, the Board approved updated Valuation and Fair Pricing Policies and Procedures. The Board designated the Investment Manager as the Valuation Designee (the “Valuation Designee”), pursuant to Rule 2a-5 under the 1940 Act, and in turn the Investment Manager established a pricing/valuation committee to assume the day-to-day fair value responsibilities of the Fund, as necessary. Securities or other assets that are not publicly traded or for which a market price is not otherwise readily available will be valued at a price that reflects such security’s fair value, as determined by the Valulation Designee. In making such fair value determinations, the Valulation Designee is required to consider all appropriate factors relevant to the value of securities for which other pricing sources are not available or reliable as described above. No single method exists for determining fair value, because fair value depends upon the circumstances of each individual case. As a general principle, the current fair value of a security being valued by the Valulation Designee would be the amount that the Fund might reasonably expect to receive upon the current sale. Methods that are in accordance with this principle may, for example, be based on (i) a multiple of earnings; (ii) a discount from market prices of a similar freely traded security (including a