Company: GLU-PB
Filing Date: 2025-09-04
Form Type: N-CSRS
Source: 0001829126-25-007144
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Company: GABELLI GLOBAL UTILITY & INCOME TRUST
Filing Date: 2025-09-04
Form: N-CSRS
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 Board Members compared the expense ratios of the investment advisory fee, other expenses, and total expenses of the Fund to similar expense ratios of the Adviser Peer Group and noted that the advisory fee includes substantially all administrative services of the Fund as well as investment advisory services of the Adviser. The Independent Board Members noted that the Fund’s effective management fee was lower than the Adviser Peer Group average. The Independent Board Members noted that the Fund had the lowest effective management fee rate among the closed-end funds in the Adviser Peer Group. The Independent Board Members all noted that the Fund’s total expense ratio was above average for the Adviser Peer Group, but that the Fund’s size was below average within the Adviser Peer Group. The Independent Board Members were presented with information comparing the advisory fee to the fee for other types of accounts managed by the Adviser. The Independent Board Members noted that within each group, the Fund’s investment management fee was below average.

Conclusions.The Independent Board Members concluded that the Fund enjoyed highly experienced portfolio advisory services, good ancillary services and an acceptable performance record within its relatively conservative stance. The Independent Board Members also concluded that the Fund’s expense ratios were acceptable in light of the Fund’s size, and that, in part due to the Fund’s structure as a closed-end fund, economies of scale were not a significant factor in their thinking. The Independent Board Members did not view the potential profitability of ancillary services as material to their decision. On the basis of the foregoing and without assigning particular weight to any single conclusion, the Independent Board Members determined to recommend continuation of the Advisory Agreement to the full Board.

Based on a consideration of all these factors in their totality, the Board Members, including all of the Independent Board Members, determined that the Fund’s advisory fee was appropriate in light of the quality of services provided and in light of the other factors described above that the Board deemed relevant. Accordingly, the Board Members determined to approve the continuation of the Fund’s Advisory Agreement. The Board Members based their decision on evaluations of all these factors as a whole and did not consider any one factor as all-important or controlling.

Item 12. Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

Not applicable.

Item 13. Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

There has been no change, as of the date of this filing, in any of the portfolio managers identified in response to paragraph (a)(1) of this Item in the registrant’s most recently filed annual report on Form N-CSR