Duff & PhelpsUtility and Infrastructure Fund Inc. 

Fund Overview

The Duff & Phelps Utility and Infrastructure Fund Inc. (NYSE: DPG) is a non-diversified, closed-end investment company initially offered to the public in July 2011. The Fund’s investment objective is to seek total return, resulting primarily from (i) a high level of current income, with an emphasis on providing tax-advantaged dividend income, and (ii) growth in current income, and secondarily from capital appreciation.

The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objectives by investing primarily in equities of domestic and foreign utilities and infrastructure providers. The Fund’s investment strategies endeavor to take advantage of the income and growth characteristics of equities in these industries.  DPG has outstanding bank loan to leverage the common stockholders’ investment.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its total assets in dividend-paying equity securities of companies in the utility industry and the infrastructure industry.  The utility industry is defined to include the following sectors: electric, gas, water, telecommunications, and midstream energy.  The infrastructure industry is defined as companies owning or operating essential transportation assets, such as toll roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, seaports, and railroads. 

Under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest no more than 60% of its total assets in any one of the five utility sectors. No more than 20% of the Fund’s total assets will be invested in securities of midstream energy companies that are not regulated by a governmental agency. In addition, under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest no more than 10% of its total assets in securities of any single issuer. No more than 15% of the Fund’s total assets will be invested in issuers located in “emerging market” countries.

Important Risk Considerations

Equity Securities: The market price of equity securities may be adversely affected by financial market, industry, or issuer-specific events.

Industry/Sector Concentration: A fund that focuses its investments in a particular industry or sector will be more sensitive to conditions that affect that industry or sector than a non-concentrated fund.  Conditions affecting the utility and infrastructure industries include general or local economic conditions, political developments, changes in regulations, environmental problems, casualty losses, and changes in interest rates.

Foreign Investing: Investing internationally involves additional risks such as currency, political, accounting, economic, and market risk.

MLPs: Investments in Master Limited Partnerships may be adversely impacted by tax law changes, regulation, or factors affecting underlying assets.

Listed & Unlisted Options: The writing of listed and unlisted call options on equities held by a fund (covered call-writing) may involve certain costs and risks such as liquidity, market, management, counterparty, and the risk that a position could not be closed when most advantageous.

No Guarantee: There is no guarantee that the portfolio will meet its objective.

Leverage: When a fund leverages its portfolio, the value of its shares may be more volatile and all other risks may be compounded.

Market Volatility: Local, regional or global events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious illness or other public health issue, recessions, or other events could have a significant impact on the fund and its investments, including hampering the ability of the fund's portfolio manager(s) to invest the fund's assets as intended.

Effective November 22, 2019, the name of Duff & Phelps Global Utility Income Fund Inc. was changed to Duff & Phelps Utility and Infrastructure Fund Inc.