Nuveen Investments, a leading global provider of investment services to institutions as well as individual investors, today announced the monthly distributions for two closed-end funds following the completion of the funds' respective portfolio repositioning. The Nuveen Preferred Income Opportunities Fund (NYSE: JPC) and the Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund (NYSE: JQC), which had previously paid distributions on a quarterly schedule, have declared monthly distributions in the amounts of $.0633 per share and $.0667 per share respectively. On an annualized basis, these amounts represent no change from the previous dividend. As of March 30, 2012, the annualized distribution rates were 8.55% and 8.91% on prices of $8.88 and $8.98, respectively.
The following dates apply to today's distribution declaration:
Record Date | April 15, 2012 (Effective Record Date, April 13, 2012) | |||||||
Ex-Dividend Date | April 11, 2012 | |||||||
Payable Date | May 1, 2012 | |||||||
Reinvest Date | May 1, 2012 | |||||||
| Monthly Taxable Distribution Per Share | |||||||
Ticker | Fund Name | Amount | Annualized Change | |||||
JPC | Nuveen Preferred Income Opportunities Fund | .0633 | - | |||||
JQC | Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund | .0667 | - | |||||
Subsequent monthly distribution announcements for these funds will be made along with all of the Nuveen funds. As announced today in a separate press release, these funds have both recently completed portfolio repositionings to increase the attractiveness of the funds' common shares and narrow the funds' trading discount.
Nuveen Investments provides high-quality investment services designed to help secure the long-term goals of institutional and individual investors as well as the consultants and financial advisors who serve them. Nuveen Investments markets a wide range of specialized investment solutions which provide investors access to capabilities of its high-quality boutique investment affiliates--Nuveen Asset Management, Symphony Asset Management, NWQ Investment Management Company, Santa Barbara Asset Management, Tradewinds Global Investors, Winslow Capital Management, and Gresham Investment Management. In total, Nuveen Investments managed approximately $230 billion as of January 31, 2012. For more information, please visit the Nuveen Investments website at www.nuveen.com.
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