Company: NCZ-PA
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-032992
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Company: Virtus Convertible & Income Fund II
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: DEF 14A
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 NOTICE OF JOINT ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS To be held on June 2, 2025 Notice is hereby given to the shareholders of Virtus Artificial Intelligence & Technology Opportunities Fund (“AIO”), Virtus Convertible & Income Fund (“NCV”), Virtus Convertible & Income Fund II (“NCZ”), Virtus Diversified Income & Convertible Fund (“ACV”), Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund (“NFJ”) and Virtus Equity & Convertible Income Fund (“NIE”), each a Massachusetts business trust, Virtus Global Multi-Sector Income Fund (“VGI”), a Delaware statutory trust, Virtus Stone Harbor Emerging Markets Income Fund (“EDF”), a Massachusetts business trust, and Virtus Total Return Fund Inc. (“ZTR”), a Maryland corporation* (each of AIO, NCV, NCZ, ACV, NFJ, NIE, VGI, EDF and ZTR, a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”), that the Joint Annual Meeting of Shareholders of the Funds (the “Annual Meeting”) will be held on June 2, 2025 at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The Annual Meeting will be held in a virtual meeting format only and will be conducted exclusively by webcast. You will be able to attend and participate in the Annual Meeting online, vote your shares electronically and submit your questions prior to and during the meeting by visiting: www.meetnow.global/MJ4WWLV on June 2, 2025 at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time and entering the control number found in the shaded box of your proxy card. You will not be able to attend the meeting physically. The Annual Meeting is being held for the following purposes: * The members of the Board of ZTR are directors, as that Fund is organized as a corporation; however, when referencing Board members generally throughout these proxy materials, we will refer to them as “trustees” unless the context is specific to ZTR. 1. To elect trustees of AIO, as follows: a. Elect George R. Aylward as a Class III trustee of AIO, by the AIO shareholders (“Proposal 1a”); b. Elect Sarah E. Cogan as a Class III trustee of AIO, by the AIO shareholders (“Proposal 1b”); c. Elect Deborah A. DeCotis as a Class III trustee of AIO, by the AIO shareholders (“