Company: CLM
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001398344-25-004655
Chunk: 20

Company: Cornerstone Strategic Investment Fund, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 20
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 Each risk summarized below is a risk of investing in the Fund and different risks may be more significant at different times depending upon market conditions or other factors. The Fund bears these risks directly and indirectly through its investments in other investment companies.

Principal Risks

Stock Market Volatility.Stock markets can be volatile. In other words, the prices of stocks can rise or fall rapidly in response to developments affecting a specific company or industry, changing economic, political or market conditions, inflation, changes in interest rate levels, lack of liquidity in the markets, volatility in the equities or other securities markets, adverse investor sentiment or political events. The Fund is subject to the general risk that the value of its investments may decline if the stock markets perform poorly. There is also a risk that the Fund’s investments will underperform either the securities markets generally or particular segments of the securities markets.

Market Disruption and Geopolitical Risk.The Fund is subject to the risk that geopolitical events will disrupt securities markets and adversely affect global economies and markets. Governments may respond aggressively to such events, including by closing borders, restricting international and domestic travel, and the imposition of prolonged quarantines or similar restrictions, as well as the forced or voluntary closure of, or operational changes to, many retail and other businesses, which could have negative impacts, and in many cases severe negative impacts, on markets worldwide. War, terrorism, and related geopolitical events (and their aftermath) have led, and in the future may lead, to increased short-term market volatility and may have adverse long-term effects on U.S. and world economies and markets generally. Likewise, natural and environmental disasters, such as, for example, earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis and weather-related phenomena generally, as well as the spread of infectious illness or other public health issues, including widespread epidemics or pandemics such as the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, and systemic market dislocations can be highly disruptive to economies and markets. Those events as well as other changes in non-U.S. and domestic economic and political conditions also could adversely affect individual issuers or related groups of issuers, securities markets, interest rates, credit ratings, inflation, investor sentiment, and other factors affecting the value of Fund investments.

The COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 resulted in travel restrictions and disruptions, closed borders, enhanced health screenings at ports of entry and elsewhere, disruption of and delays in healthcare service preparation and delivery, quarantines, event cancellations and restrictions, service cancellations or reductions, disruptions