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September 20, 2019
Dear Shareholders:
As you may know, Vertical Capital Income Fund was unable to reach a quorum to hold our 2019 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and the meeting was adjourned until September 30, 2019. The main reason why we are forced to adjourn the annual meeting and to continue to spend money and resources on the vote is because Bulldog Investors has intentionally withheld its voting on the green card in an effort to prevent the annual meeting from occurring.
Bulldog has demonstrated that it cannot be trusted.
Despite promising shareholders who vote on Bulldog’s proxy card that their vote willnot be withheld for quorum purposes if shareholders vote “Against” this proposed scheme, Bulldog has failed twice to attend, or have its proxies voted at, the Annual Meeting on the originally scheduled date of August 30, 2019 and the date of the first adjournment. Bulldog disenfranchised these shareholders and demonstrated that it cannot be trusted to follow shareholders’ voting instructions.
Please vote today to allow the Annual Meeting to happen. There is still time!
We need your vote to be able to hold our annual meeting! We strongly encourage you to please vote today using the enclosed WHITE proxy form.
Even if you wish to vote against or abstain on any of the proposals, we can help you cast your vote.Just please vote! Unlike Bulldog, we will continue to submit all the voting that is cast on our WHITE card.
Do Not Vote Using the Green Card. It will likely not be submitted.
If you need any assistance, please contact Alliance Advisors LLC, our proxy solicitation firm, at 833-782-7194.
Sincerely,
Robert J. Chapman
Chairman of the Board
Additional Information about the Annual Meeting and Where to Find It
In connection with the Annual Meeting, the Fund has filed on June 21, 2019, with the SEC and furnished to the Fund’s shareholders on or around June 27, 2019 a Definitive Proxy Statement and WHITE proxy card pertaining to the Annual Meeting. Shareholders of the Fund are urged to read the Definitive Proxy Statement and other relevant documents that have been or may be filed with the SEC carefully and in their entirety because they contain important information about the Annual Meeting. Shareholders of the Fund may obtain the Definitive Proxy Statement and other relevant documents filed with the SEC free of charge at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov or by directing a request to Stanton P. Eigenbrodt, Secretary, Vertical Capital Income Fund, 80 Arkay Drive, Suite 110, Hauppauge, NY 11788.
Participants in the Solicitation
The Fund’s Trustees, executive officers and Portfolio Manager and certain persons associated with the Fund’s investment adviser and its parent company may be deemed “participants” in the solicitation of proxies from shareholders of the Fund in favor of the approval of the Fund’s investment management agreement and the re-election of Mr. Boulware as a Trustee, to be voted on at the Annual Meeting. Information regarding the persons who may, under the rules of the SEC, be considered participants in the solicitation of the shareholders of the Fund in connection with the Annual Meeting is set forth in the Definitive Proxy Statement, the Supplement and the other relevant documents filed by the Fund with the SEC. You can find information about the Fund’s Trustees, executive officers and other parties in the Definitive Proxy Statement and in subsequent reports filed with the SEC.
