Company: JPC
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: N-14 8C
Source: 0001999371-25-004713
Chunk: 185

Company: Nuveen Preferred & Income Opportunities Fund
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: N-14 8C
Chunk 185
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 the Fund’s Declaration of Trust.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have duly executed this Agreement, all as of the date first written above.

| NUVEEN PREFERRED & INCOME OPPORTUNITIES FUND            |
| By:                                                     |
| Name:                                                   |
| Title:                                                  |
| NUVEEN PREFERRED SECURITIES & INCOME OPPORTUNITIES FUND |
| By:                                                     |
| Name:                                                   |
| Title:                                                  |
| JPI Merger Sub, LLC                                     |
| By:                                                     |
| Name:                                                   |
| Title:                                                  |

<div align='center'>[Signature Page to Agreement and Plan of
Merger (JPI-JPC Merger)]

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Schedule 7.6</div>

Nuveen Preferred Securities & Income Opportunities Fund

Amended and Restated Master Custodian Agreement between the Target Fund and State Street Bank and Trust Company dated as of July 15, 2015

Investment Management Agreement by and between the Target Fund and Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC dated as of October 1, 2014

Investment Sub-Advisory Agreement by and between Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC and Nuveen Asset Management, LLC dated as of October 1, 2014

Transfer Agency and Service Agreement by and between the Target Fund and Computershare Inc. and Computershare Trust Company, N.A. dated as of June 15, 2017

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APPENDIX B

Financial Highlights</div>

Information contained in the tables below under the headings “Per Share Operating Performance” and “Ratios/Supplemental Data” shows the operating performance for the most recent ten fiscal years for the Target and Acquiring Funds.

Target Fund

The following Financial Highlights table is intended to help a prospective investor understand the Target Fund’s financial performance for the periods shown. Certain information of the Target Fund reflects financial results for a single common share of the Target Fund. The total returns in the table represent the rate an investor would have earned or lost on an investment in common shares of the Fund (assuming reinvestment of all dividends). The Target Fund’s financial statements as of and for the fiscal years ended July 31, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019,