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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9c The holders of each of NCV’s, NCZ’s and ACV’s Preferred Shares will have the right to vote exclusively as a separate class with respect to Proposals 2a, 3b, and 4c, as applicable. The holders of each of NCV’s, NCZ’s and ACV’s Preferred Shares will have equal voting rights (i.e., one vote per Share) with the applicable Fund’s Common Shareholders and will vote together with Common Shareholders as a single class with respect to Proposals 2b, 3a, 3c, 4a and 4b, as applicable. The holders of each of AIO’s, NFJ’s, NIE’s, VGI’s, EDF’s and ZTR’s Shares will have equal voting rights (i.e., one vote per Share) and will vote together as a single class with respect to Proposals 1a through 1c and 5a through 9c, as applicable. Unless authority is withheld, it is the intention of the persons named in the proxy to vote the proxy “FOR” the election of the Trustee Nominee described in Proposals 1a through 9c. 7

Under a plurality vote, the candidates who receive the highest number of votes will be elected, even if they receive approval from less than a majority of the votes cast. Because the Trustee Nominees are running unopposed, all Trustee Nominees of each Fund requiring a plurality vote are expected to be elected as Trustees, as all Trustee Nominees who receive votes in favor will be elected if a quorum is present, while votes not cast or votes to withhold will have no effect on the election outcome. Background and additional information concerning the current Trustees and the Trustee nominees is set forth in the tables that follow. The “Interested” Trustee is indicated by an asterisk (*). Independent Trustees are those who are not “interested persons” (as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”)) of (i) the applicable Fund, (ii) the Fund’s investment adviser, Virtus Investment Advisers, LLC (the “Adviser”) or applicable subadviser(s) (Newfleet Asset Management (“Newfleet”) or Stone Harbor Investment Partners (“Stone Harbor”), each an operating division of Virtus Fixed Income Advisers, LLC (“VFIA”), D