Company: JPC
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-045738
Chunk: 9

Company: Nuveen Preferred & Income Opportunities Fund
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 9
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 | VRDP Series 1    |     | Special Rate VRDP    |     | No           |

| (1) | As of the record date, February 18, 2025. The terms and conditions of each series of Preferred Shares, as well as the                                                                                           
 rights and privileges of each mode, if any, are described in the Statement Establishing and Designating the Rights and Preferences for each series of Preferred Shares, and any supplement or appendix thereto. |

Broker-dealers who are not members of the NYSE may be subject to other rules, which may or may not permit them to vote your shares without instruction. We urge you to
provide instructions to your broker or nominee so that your votes may be counted.

For each Fund, because the number of persons nominated for election as Board
Members in accordance with the Fund’s by-laws equals the number of Board Members to be elected, the affirmative vote of a plurality (the greatest number of affirmative votes) of the shares present and
entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting will be required to elect each Board Member of that Fund. This means that the nominees receiving the highest number of affirmative votes cast at the Annual Meeting will be elected to serve as Board Members. For
example, if there are four nominees for election to the Board and four Board Members to be elected, a vote by plurality means the four nominees with the highest number of affirmative votes, regardless of the votes withheld for the nominees, will be
elected. Because the election of Board Members in this case does not require that a minimum percentage of a Fund’s outstanding Common Shares and Preferred Shares be voted in favor of any nominee, assuming the presence of a quorum, abstentions
and broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of the election of that Fund’s Board Members by holders of Common Shares and Preferred Shares.

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Those persons who were shareholders of record at the close of business on February 18, 2025, will be entitled to one
vote for each share held and a proportionate fractional vote for each fractional vote held. As of February 18, 2025, the shares of the Funds were issued and outstanding as follows:

| Fund                             |     | Ticker Symbol(1) |     | Common Shares |             |     | Preferred Shares |     |         |
| Core Equity Alpha                |     | JCE              |     |               |  16,833,768 |     | N/A              |     |         |
| Core Plus