Company: CLM
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001398344-25-003662
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Company: Cornerstone Strategic Investment Fund, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: DEF 14A
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 to the Fund (“Equiniti”), and Ultimus Fund Solutions, LLC, the administrator to the Fund (the “Administrator”), may be involved in the solicitation of proxies. The Fund does not reimburse such persons for the solicitation of proxies.

The Fund expects that the solicitation will be primarily by mail, but also may include telephone, electronic, oral or other means of communication. If the Fund does not receive your proxy by a certain time, you may receive a telephone call from a proxy soliciting agent asking you to vote. The cost of soliciting the proxies will be borne by the Fund.

Only holders of issued and outstanding shares of the Fund’s common stock of record at the close of business on February 14, 2025 are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Meeting. Each such holder is entitled to one vote per share of common stock so held. The number of shares of common stock outstanding on February 14, 2025 was 249,755,204. The Fund is a diversified, closed-end management investment company.

Copies of the Fund’s most recent annual and semi-annual report may be ordered free of charge to any Stockholder by writing to the Fund, c/o Ultimus Fund Solutions, LLC, 225 Pictoria Drive, Suite 450, Cincinnati, OH 45246, or by calling (866) 668-6558. This report is not to be regarded as proxy-soliciting material.

This Proxy Statement is first being mailed to Stockholders on or about February 25, 2025.

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PROPOSAL NO. 1
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS</div>

In accordance with the Fund’s By-laws, the Fund’s Board of Directors is divided into three classes: Class I, Class II and Class III. Each class has a term of three years and each year the term of office of one class expires. The effect of these staggered terms is to limit the ability of other entities or persons to acquire control of the Fund by delaying the replacement of a majority of the Board of Directors.

At the Meeting, Stockholders will be asked to elect four Class III directors to hold office until the year 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or thereafter until each of their respective successors is duly elected and qualified. The term of office of the Class III Directors, currently consisting of Messrs. Joshua G. Bradshaw, Peter K. Greer, Frank J. Maresca and Andrew A, Strauss