Company: TSI
Filing Date: 2025-08-08
Form Type: N-2
Source: 0001193125-25-177098
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Company: TCW STRATEGIC INCOME FUND INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-08
Form: N-2
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ors (i.e., not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government) include the FNMA and the FHLMC.
Pass-through securities issued by FNMA are guaranteed as to timely payment of principal and interest by FNMA but are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government. FHLMC guarantees the timely payment of interest and ultimate
collection of principal, but its PCs are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.

U.S. Government Securities
include securities that have no coupons, or have been stripped of their unmatured interest coupons, individual interest coupons from such securities that trade separately, and evidence of receipt of such securities. Such securities may pay no cash
income, and are purchased at a deep discount from their value at maturity. Because interest on zero coupon securities is not distributed on a current basis but is, in effect, compounded, zero coupon securities tend to be subject to greater risk than
interest-paying securities of similar maturities. Custodial receipts issued in connection with so-called trademark zero coupon securities, such as Certificate of Accrual on Treasury Securities
(“CATs”) and treasury investment growth receipts (“TIGRs”), are not issued by the U.S. Treasury, and are therefore not U.S. Government Securities, although the underlying bond represented by such receipt is a debt obligation of
the U.S. Treasury. Other zero coupon Treasury securities (e.g., separate trading of registered interest and principal of securities (“STRIPs”) and coupons under book-entry safekeeping (“CUBEs”)) are direct obligations of
the U.S. Government.

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Cybersecurity Risk As the use of technology has become more prevalent and interconnected in the course of business, the Fund has become potentially more susceptible to operational and informational security risks resulting from breaches in cyber-security. A breach in cyber-security refers to both intentional and unintentional cyber events that may, among other things, cause the Fund to lose proprietary information, suffer data corruption and/or destruction, lose operational capacity, result in the unauthorized release or other misuse of confidential information, or otherwise disrupt normal business operations. Cyber-security breaches may involve unauthorized access to the digital information systems that support the Fund ( e.g., through “hacking,” ransomware or malicious software coding) or outside attacks such as denial-of-service attacks( i.e., efforts to make network services unavailable to intended users), but may also result from intentionally or unintentionally harmful acts of Adviser personnel. In addition