Company: NMZ
Filing Date: 2025-11-18
Form Type: N-14 8C/A
Source: 0001999371-25-018025
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Company: NUVEEN MUNICIPAL HIGH INCOME OPPORTUNITY FUND
Filing Date: 2025-11-18
Form: N-14 8C/A
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en Asset Management is responsible for execution of specific investment strategies and day-to-day investment operations. Nuveen Asset Management manages the portfolio of each Fund using a team of analysts and a portfolio manager that focuses on a specific group of funds.

Paul L. Brennan, CFA, and Steve M. Hlavin are the portfolio managers of Pennsylvania Municipal and New Jersey Municipal. Michael Hamilton and Stephen J. Candido, CFA, are the portfolio managers of Missouri Municipal. Daniel Close, CFA, Stephen Candido, CFA and Steve M. Hlavin are the portfolio managers of the Acquiring Fund. Mr. Close, Mr. Candido, and Mr. Hlavin will manage the combined fund upon completion of the Merger. Additional information regarding the portfolio managers’ compensation, other accounts managed and ownership of securities is contained in the Merger SAI.

Daniel J. Close, CFA, serves as chief investment officer and head of Nuveen’s municipal fixed income department – the largest and most experienced team of investment professionals in the industry. He is the lead portfolio manager for high yield municipal strategies, as well as tax-exempt and taxable municipal strategies across open-end funds, closed-end funds and customized institutional portfolios. Prior to his current role, Dan was a long-serving portfolio manager for several municipal mutual funds and played a key role in establishing and expanding Nuveen’s institutional platform as head of Taxable Municipals. He also chairs the Municipal Investment Oversight Committee, helping to set the strategic direction of all municipal strategies managed by Nuveen. Dan joined Nuveen in 2000 as a municipal fixed income research analyst, covering the corporate-backed, energy, transportation, and utility sectors. He began his investment career in 1998 as an analyst at Banc of America Securities. He holds a B.S. in Business from Miami University and an M.B.A. from the J. L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Dan is a Chartered Financial Analyst ®and a member of both the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Chicago.

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Stephen J. Candido, CFA, Managing Director at Nuveen Asset Management, is a portfolio manager for high yield municipal strategies at Nuveen, managing high yield funds and institutional accounts. He also has responsibility for tax-exempt open-end funds and closed-end funds that allocate to both investment grade and high yield municipals. Stephen started working in the investment industry in 1996 when he joined Nuveen