Company: FPF
Filing Date: 2025-10-14
Form Type: 40-17G
Source: 0001445546-25-006782
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Company: First Trust Intermediate Duration Preferred & Income Fund
Filing Date: 2025-10-14
Form: 40-17G
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| First Trust Variable Insurance Trust                      | 811-22652 | 333-178767                             |

Dear Sir or Madam:

Enclosed for filing, pursuant to Rule
17g-1 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, please find a copy of the Joint Insured Fidelity Bond for the period
October 9, 2025, to October 9, 2026, for the First Trust complex of funds referenced above. Please note for the Commission’s
records, the following:

(i) The Joint Insured Fidelity
Bond;

(ii) a Certificate of Assistant
Secretary containing the form of resolutions of the Board of Trustees approving the amount, type, form and coverage of the Fidelity Bond,
the amount of the single insured bond which the registrant would have provided had it not been named as an insured under the Fidelity
Bond, and a statement as to the period for which premiums have been paid; and

(iii) a copy of the Blanket
Bond Insurance Agreement.

| Very truly yours,             |
| First Trust Portfolios L.P.   |
| /s/ Kristi A. Maher           |
| International General Counsel |

Enclosures