Company: RNP
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001193125-25-049819
Chunk: 80

Company: COHEN & STEERS REIT & PREFERRED & INCOME FUND INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 80
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 cash flow to make distributions to the Fund. The Fund’s investments in a REIT Subsidiary could cause the Fund to recognize income in excess of cash received from those investments and, as a result, the Fund may be required to sell portfolio investments, including when it is not advantageous to do so, in order to make distributions. By investing in a REIT Subsidiary, the Fund is indirectly exposed to risks associated with the REIT Subsidiary’s investments. A REIT Subsidiary may invest in real estate and real estate-related investments through wholly-owned special purpose companies. Because each REIT Subsidiary will not be registered under the 1940 Act, the Fund, as an investor in the REIT Subsidiary, will not have the protections afforded to investors in registered investment companies. Changes in the laws of the United States, under which the Fund and a REIT Subsidiary are organized, including the regulations under the Code, could result in the inability of the Fund and/or a REIT Subsidiary to operate as intended and could negatively affect the Fund and its shareholders. Ownership of and investment through a REIT Subsidiary by a closed-endmanagement investment company is relatively novel investment strategy. Differences between the statutory and regulatory regimes applicable to a management investment company and a REIT present additional challenges and risks with regard to a REIT Subsidiary’s qualification as a REIT under the Code, which could result in the REIT Subsidiary and the Fund having additional tax liability, and reduce the Fund’s current income.

A REIT Subsidiary could default on its obligations or go bankrupt. Each REIT Subsidiary will be operated as a separate company and will observe its own corporate formalities (i.e., it will maintain its own separate books & records, and execute agreements in its own name and on its own behalf). Accordingly, creditors and other claimants should only be able to look to the REIT Subsidiary and its assets for settlement of their claims against the REIT Subsidiary. Creditors and other claimants against the REIT Subsidiary will not have general recourse against the Fund unless the Fund guarantees the debt or obligations of the REIT Subsidiary. See “Recourse Financings Risk.” Each REIT Subsidiary is responsible for its own legal costs in defending against any such claims, but those legal costs may diminish its returns, and thus ultimately diminish returns to