Company: SWZ
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000894189-25-000453
Chunk: 37

Company: Total Return Securities Fund
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 37
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InvestorCom”) to serve as Proxy solicitor at an anticipated cost of approximately $25,000, plus disbursements. In addition to the use of mails, Proxy solicitations may be made by telephone, fax and personal interview by InvestorCom, the Fund’s Directors and officers and officers of the Fund without additional compensation. Brokerage houses, banks and other fiduciaries may be requested to forward Proxy solicitation material to their customers to obtain authorization for the execution of Proxies, and they will be reimbursed by the Fund for out-of-pocket expenses incurred in this connection. Bulldog has agreed, at the request of the Non-Bulldog Directors, that in the event that all of Proposals 1, 2 and 3.a are not approved by our stockholders, it will reimburse the Fund for any and all expenses incurred by the Fund in connection with the preparing, printing and mailing of the Proxy Statement, accompanying Notice of Special Meeting and the accompanying Proxy card as well as the solicitation of votes in connection with the Special Meeting. If you have any questions concerning this Proxy solicitation, please contact InvestorCom, Telephone Number: (877) 972-0090. Authorizations to execute Proxies may be obtained by telephonic transmitted instructions in accordance with procedures designed to authenticate the stockholder’s identity. In all cases where a telephonic Proxy is solicited, the stockholder will be asked to provide his or her address, social security number (in the case of an individual) or taxpayer identification number (in the case of a 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. -24- V