ERH - Allspring Utilities & High Income Fund

What this means for you

No investor has reported owning 5% or more of this fund. That is the normal state for most closed-end funds.

Nothing is required of you. If that changes, the notice appears here within a day of being filed with the regulator.

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What happened, and when

Nothing on file yet. No large investor has reported a stake in this fund, and the fund has not announced a buy-back, a vote or a closing.

About this fund

• Run by Allspring Funds Management, LLC. As of Aug 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
• Size: about $114 million of holdings, as of May 31, 2026. As of May 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Borrowing: the fund borrows about 21% on top of its own money, as of May 31, 2026. Borrowed money makes gains and losses bigger. As of May 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Costs: 0.6% a year in management fees; 2.4% a year in total, including interest on borrowed money. Fiscal year ended Aug 31, 2025. As of Aug 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
• Payouts: last fiscal year (ended Aug 31, 2025) the fund paid $0.89 a share. $0.40 of that was income; $0.49 was your own money back, not income. As of Aug 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Value of holdings per share at the last fiscal year end (Aug 31, 2025): $12.88. The shares traded at $12.02, about 6.7% below that. As of Aug 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
• How the holdings did: down 4.7% over the last three months we have (March-May 2026), before the share price is taken into account. Over the last 12 months: +14.7%. As of May 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• How the holdings did over the fiscal year (ended Aug 31, 2025): the value of the holdings returned +15.6%. How the share price did: the shares returned +21% over the same year, counting payouts and the change in the market price. As of Aug 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• First reported to the regulator in 2004.

What the fund holds

Mostly shares (69%), the rest bonds, cash and short-term holdings and loans. About 95% issued in the U.S.

1. NextEra Energy - 12.7%
2. Constellation Energy - 7.1%
3. Southern Co/The - 5.9%
4. American Electric Power - 5.3%
5. Vistra - 4.8%
6. Entergy - 4.6%
7. Duke Energy - 4.4%
8. Atmos Energy - 4%
9. Sempra - 3.8%
10. Xcel Energy - 3.5%

As of May 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →