NCZ - Virtus Convertible & Income Fund II

What this means for you

2 large investors own more than 5% of this fund but have told the regulator they are not seeking changes. That is common for banks, brokers and index funds that hold shares for their clients.

Nothing is required of you. If an investor changes its mind, it must file a new notice within days, and it will show up here.

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What happened, and when

1. Aug 13, 2026

   Morgan Stanley raised its stake to 8% of the fund's preferred shares (from 5.4%), not the common shares most holders own.

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2. Dec 10, 2025

   Advisors Asset Management now owns 5.3%, as a passive investor.

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3. Nov 7, 2025

   Morgan Stanley cut its stake to 5% (from 10.2%), as a passive investor.

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4. Nov 7, 2025

   Morgan Stanley cut its stake to 5.4% of the fund's preferred shares (from 6.9%), not the common shares most holders own.

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5. Nov 7, 2025

   Morgan Stanley cut its stake to 10.2% (from 11.3%), as a passive investor.

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About this fund

• Run by Virtus Investment Advisers, LLC. Part of the Virtus fund family. As of Jan 31, 2026, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
• Size: about $320 million of holdings, as of July 31, 2026. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Borrowing: the fund borrows about 33% on top of its own money, as of July 31, 2026. Borrowed money makes gains and losses bigger. About 82% of that is money the fund has borrowed by selling preferred shares. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Costs: 1.1% a year in management fees; 2.2% a year in total, including interest on borrowed money. Fiscal year ended Jan 31, 2026. As of Jan 31, 2026, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
  Among the 11 funds we follow that invest in convertible bonds, 6 charge a lower management fee and 4 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.
• Payouts: last fiscal year (ended Jan 31, 2026) the fund paid $2.99 a share. $0.89 of that was income; $2.10 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 Jan 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Value of holdings per share at the last fiscal year end (Jan 31, 2026): $15.88. The shares traded at $14.47, about 8.9% below that. As of Jan 31, 2026, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
• How the holdings did: up 2% over the last three months we have (May-July 2026), before the share price is taken into account. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• First reported to the regulator in 2003.

How this has changed

• Payouts per share: $2.99 in the fiscal year ended Jan 31, 2026; $1.80 in the year ended Jan 31, 2025; $1.80 in the year ended Jan 31, 2024.As of Jan 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Of that, your own money back rather than income: none in the year ended Jan 31, 2026; none in the year ended Jan 31, 2025; $1.30 in the year ended Jan 31, 2024.As of Jan 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Costs, including interest on borrowed money: 2.32% a year in the fiscal year ended Jan 31, 2026; 2.54% a year in the year ended Jan 31, 2025; 2.71% a year in the year ended Jan 31, 2024.As of Jan 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Size of the holdings: about $302 million at Jan 30, 2026; $268 million at Jan 31, 2025; $249 million at Jan 31, 2024. From the fund's quarterly holdings reports. Original documents: Jan 30, 2026 →, Jan 31, 2025 →, Jan 31, 2024 →.
• Borrowing: about 36% on top of its own money at Jan 30, 2026; 38% at Jan 31, 2025; 41% at Jan 31, 2024. From the fund's quarterly holdings reports. Original documents: Jan 30, 2026 →, Jan 31, 2025 →, Jan 31, 2024 →.

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

What a holder made

• The year ended Jan 31, 2026: the shares returned +2.9%, counting payouts; the holdings +19.8%. The holdings figure is what the fund's investments earned, before the share price is taken into account. As of Jan 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Jan 31, 2025: the shares returned +45.6%, counting payouts; the holdings +23.8%. As of Jan 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Jan 31, 2024: the shares returned +18.8%, counting payouts; the holdings +13.6%. As of Jan 31, 2024, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Jan 31, 2023: the shares returned -18.4%, counting payouts; the holdings -10%. As of Jan 31, 2023, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Jan 31, 2022: the shares returned +2.8%, counting payouts; the holdings -1.9%. As of Jan 31, 2022, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Those five years together: the shares returned +49.2%. $10,000 of shares bought at the start (Feb 1, 2021) would have become about $14,900 by Jan 31, 2026, with every payout counted, before tax. As of Jan 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The holdings over the last twelve months we have, to July 31, 2026: +30.2%. The quarterly reports carry no share price, so this is the holdings alone. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Of the 10 funds that invest in convertible bonds with a fiscal year ending within six months of this one, 7 reported a higher share return for that year and 2 a lower one. As of Jan 31, 2026, 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 bonds (84%), the rest preferred shares, cash and short-term holdings and shares. About 92% issued in the U.S.

1. Alphabet Inc Series A Depositary Shares Each Representing A 1/20TH Interest in A Share of 6.25% Series B Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock - 6.4%
2. Cash and short-term - 4.5%
3. Akamai Technologies - 3.1%
4. Live Nation Entertainment, Lyv 2.875 01/15/30 - 2.7%
5. Wells Fargo & Company 7.5% Non-Cumulative Perpetual Convertible Class A Preferred Stock class A shares - 2.6%
6. Welltower Op LLC, Well 3.125 07/15/29 - 2.5%
7. Boeing Company 6% Ser A Dep Shs Repstg 1/20TH Int Mandatory Conv preferred shares - 2.3%
8. Ccf Holdings LLC - 2.2%
9. Nextera Energy Capital Holdings, Nee 3 03/01/27 - 2.2%
10. Western Digital, Wdc 3 11/15/28 - 2.1%

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