Company: TSI
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001193125-25-046168
Chunk: 45

Company: TCW STRATEGIC INCOME FUND INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 45
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 against much larger firms and passive investment products. The Board and the Independent Directors also recognized that the Fund benefits from receiving investment advice from an organization with other types of advisory clients in addition to investment companies. The Board and the Independent Directors concluded that the Advisor was satisfactorily sharing potential economies of scale with the Fund through low fees and expenses, and through reinvesting in its capabilities for serving the Fund and its shareholders. 6. Ancillary benefits The Board and the Independent Directors also considered ancillary benefits received or to be received by the Advisor and its affiliates as a result of the relationship of the Advisor with the Fund. The Board and the Independent Directors concluded that any potential benefits to be received or to be derived by the Advisor from its relationships with the Fund are reasonably related to the services provided by the Advisor to the Fund. 7. Conclusions Based on their overall review, including their consideration of each of the factors referred to above (and others), the Board and the Independent Directors concluded that the Agreement is fair and reasonable to the Fund and its shareholders, that the Fund’s shareholders received reasonable value in return for the advisory fees and other amounts paid to the Advisor by the Fund, and that the renewal of the Agreement was in the best interests of the Fund and its shareholders. 57 TCW Strategic Income Fund, Inc. Supplemental Information Proxy Voting Guidelines The policies and procedures that the Fund uses to determine how to vote proxies are available without charge. The Board of the Fund has delegated the Fund’s proxy voting authority to the Advisor. Disclosure of Proxy Voting Guidelines The proxy voting guidelines of the Advisor are available:

| 1. | By calling1-877-829-4768to obtain a hard copy; or |

| 2. | By going to the TCW website at https://www.tcw.com/Global-Proxy-Voting-Policy; or |

| 3. | By going to the SEC website at http://www.sec.gov. |

When the Fund receives a request for a description of the Advisor’s proxy voting guidelines, it will deliver the description that is disclosed on TCW’s website. This information will be sent out via first class mail (or other means designed to ensure equally prompt delivery) within three business days of receiving the request. The Advisor, on behalf of the Fund, prepares and files Form N-PXwith the SEC not later than August 31 of each year, which must include the Fund’s proxy voting record for the most recent twelve-month period ended June 30 of that year. The Fund