Company: NCZ-PA
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-032992
Chunk: 38

Company: Virtus Convertible & Income Fund II
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 38
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ulative Preferred Shares and MRP Shares, each with liquidation preference of $25.00 per share, and ACV had outstanding series of MRP Shares with liquidation preference of $25.00 per share. Expenses and Proxy Solicitation The Funds will bear the expense of the Annual Meeting, including preparation, printing and mailing of the enclosed form of proxy, accompanying Notice of Annual Meeting and this Proxy Statement. Each Fund will bear its pro rata portion of such expenses based on its assets, except for mailing expenses, which are paid by each Fund based on its actual mailing expenses to its shareholders. Each Fund, upon request, will reimburse banks, brokers and others for their reasonable expenses in forwarding proxy solicitation material to the beneficial owners of that Fund’s Shares. In order to obtain the necessary quorum at the Meeting, supplementary solicitation may be made by mail, telephone or personal interviews by officers or employees of the Funds and/or Adviser, or their affiliates, or representatives of a proxy solicitation firm. The Funds’ officers will not receive any additional compensation for such solicitation, though a proxy solicitation firm (if one is used) will. The Funds will bear 100% of solicitation costs, if any. Unless a Fund receives contrary instructions, only one copy of this Proxy Statement will be mailed to a given address where two or more Shareholders share that address. The Proxy Statement is also available at https://www.proxy-direct.com/vir-34455 . Adviser and Subadvisers Virtus Investment Advisers, LLC serves as investment adviser to all of the Funds. The Adviser is responsible for overseeing the investment management and administration services provided to the Funds. The Adviser is located at One Financial Plaza, Hartford, CT 06103. 41

The Adviser has delegated the day-to-day portfolio management of AIO, NCV, NCZ, ACV and NIE to Voya; the day-to-day portfolio management of NFJ to Voya and NFJ Group; the day-to-day portfolio management of VGI to Newfleet, an operating division of VFIA; the day-to-day portfolio management of EDF to Stone Harbor, an operating division of VFIA; and the day-to-day portfolio management of ZTR to Newfleet and Duff & Phelps. Each of NFJ Group, Duff & Phelps and VFIA is an affiliate of the Adviser and, like the Adviser, is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. NFJ Group is located at