JCE - Nuveen Core Equity Alpha Fund

What this means for you

None of the investors we follow 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

1. Oct 2, 2026

   The fund said it may sell new shares.

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2. July 30, 2026

   First Trust Portfolios L.P. sold down below 5% and stopped reporting.

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3. May 30, 2025

   The fund said it may sell new shares.

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About this fund

• Run by Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC. Part of the Nuveen fund family. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
• Size: about $296 million of holdings, as of June 30, 2026. As of June 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Borrowing: the fund borrows about 2% on top of its own money, as of June 30, 2026. Borrowed money makes gains and losses bigger. As of June 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Costs: 0.8% a year in management fees; 1% a year in total, including interest on borrowed money. Fiscal year ended Dec 31, 2025. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
  Among the 53 funds we follow that invest in shares, 14 charge a lower management fee and 8 charge less in total, at their last yearly reports. Both numbers are measured against the fund's own money, not the money it borrows on top, so a fund that borrows more shows higher costs on both counts.
• The fund's own cost example: $1,000 invested costs about $20 in the first year and about $130 over 10 years, assuming the holdings return 5% a year. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Payouts: last fiscal year (ended Dec 31, 2025) the fund paid $1.28 a share. $0.03 of that was income; $1.25 came from gains. Most funds announce their monthly or quarterly payout on their own website, not in a filing with the regulator, so a cut or a raise there does not show up here until the next yearly report. A few funds do file a notice about a fixed payout; those appear under What happened, and when. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Value of holdings per share at the last fiscal year end (Dec 31, 2025): $16.92. The shares traded at $15.94, about 5.8% below that. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
  Over the last two years the gap (a "discount" when the price is below the value) ranged from 6% below to 2% above. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• How the holdings did: up 12.8% over the last three months we have (April-June 2026), before the share price is taken into account. As of June 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• First reported to the regulator in 2007.

How this has changed

• Payouts per share: $1.28 in the fiscal year ended Dec 31, 2025; $1.28 in the year ended Dec 31, 2024; $1.28 in the year ended Dec 31, 2023.As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Of that, your own money back rather than income: none in the year ended Dec 31, 2025; none in the year ended Dec 31, 2024; $1.20 in the year ended Dec 31, 2023.As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Costs, including interest on borrowed money: 0.99% a year in the fiscal year ended Dec 31, 2025; 1% a year in the year ended Dec 31, 2024; 1.02% a year in the year ended Dec 31, 2023.As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Size of the holdings: about $288 million at Dec 31, 2025; $258 million at Dec 31, 2024; $214 million at Dec 31, 2023. From the fund's quarterly holdings reports. Original documents: Dec 31, 2025 →, Dec 31, 2024 →, Dec 31, 2023 →.
• Borrowing: none at Dec 31, 2025; none at Dec 31, 2024; none at Dec 31, 2023. From the fund's quarterly holdings reports. Original documents: Dec 31, 2025 →, Dec 31, 2024 →, Dec 31, 2023 →.
• The fund had about 17 million shares at Dec 31, 2025, up 5.7% from Dec 31, 2023.As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
  In between, the fund said it may sell new shares. Original document →

What these lines mean: a payout that is your own money back, what a fund costs, borrowing.

What a holder made

• The year ended Dec 31, 2025: the shares returned +8.9%, counting payouts; the holdings +18.4%. The holdings figure is what the fund's investments earned, before the share price is taken into account. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Dec 31, 2024: the shares returned +27.8%, counting payouts; the holdings +26.9%. As of Dec 31, 2024, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Dec 31, 2023: the shares returned +10.6%, counting payouts; the holdings +21.7%. As of Dec 31, 2023, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Dec 31, 2022: the shares returned -14.1%, counting payouts; the holdings -17.3%. As of Dec 31, 2022, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Dec 31, 2021: the shares returned +47.2%, counting payouts; the holdings +26.9%. As of Dec 31, 2021, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Those five years together: the shares returned +94.5%. $10,000 of shares bought at the start (Jan 1, 2021) would have become about $19,400 by Dec 31, 2025, with every payout counted, before tax. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The holdings over the last twelve months we have, to June 30, 2026: +20.2%. The quarterly reports carry no share price, so this is the holdings alone. As of June 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Of the 46 funds that invest in shares with a fiscal year ending within six months of this one, 41 reported a higher share return for that year and 4 a lower one. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• A past year says nothing about the next one. All figures are the fund's own, from its reports to the regulator.

Why the shares and the holdings can differ: the gap between price and value. Why payouts count: a payout that is your own money back.

What the fund holds

Mostly shares (98%), the rest cash and short-term holdings. All of it issued in the U.S.

The fund also sells options on its holdings to raise income.

1. Nvidia - 8.2%
2. Apple - 7.3%
3. Alphabet - 6.7%
4. Microsoft - 5%
5. Amazon.com - 4%
6. Broadcom - 3.2%
7. Micron Technology - 2.7%
8. Cash and short-term - 2.2%
9. JPMorgan Chase & - 2%
10. Applied Materials - 1.8%

As of June 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →