Company: CIF
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001741773-25-002969
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Company: MFS INTERMEDIATE HIGH INCOME FUND
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 6
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 the Trusts’ officers, including the Trusts’ principal executive officer and principal financial
and accounting officer. The Board provides oversight of the services provided by MFS and its affiliates,
including the risk management activities of MFS and its affiliates (including those related to cybersecurity).
In addition, each Committee of the Board provides oversight of its risk management activities with respect
to the particular activities within the Committee’s purview. In the course of providing oversight,
the Board and the Committees receive a wide range of reports on the Trusts’ activities, including reports
on each Trust’s investment portfolio, the compliance of the Trusts with applicable laws, and the Trusts’
financial accounting and reporting. The Board also meets periodically with the portfolio managers of
each Trust to receive reports regarding the management of each Trust, including its investment risks.
The Board and the relevant Committees meet periodically with MFS’ Global Head of Enterprise Risk to
receive reports on MFS’ and its affiliates’ risk management activities, including their efforts to
(i) identify key risks that could adversely affect the Trusts or MFS; (ii) implement processes and
controls to mitigate such key risks; and (iii) monitor business and market conditions in order to facilitate
the processes described in (i) and (ii) above. In addition, the Board and the relevant Committees oversee
risk management activities related to the key risks associated with services provided by various non-affiliated
service providers through the receipt of reports prepared by MFS, and, in certain circumstances, through
the receipt of reports directly from service providers, such as in the case of each Trust’s auditor
and custodian. As the Trusts’ operations are carried out by service providers, the Board’s oversight
of the risk management processes of the service providers, including processes to address cybersecurity
and other operational failures, is inherently limited.

Effective as of the election and qualification of the nominees at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, the Board has fixed the number of Trustees of each Trust at 12. Under the provisions of each Trust’s Declaration of Trust, the Trustees are divided into three classes, each having a term of three years.1Under the terms of the Board’s retirement policy, an Independent Trustee shall retire at the end of the calendar year in which he or she reaches the earlier of 75 years of age or 15 years of service on the Board (or, in the case of an Independent Trustee who joined the Board prior to 2015, 20