Nuveen Energy MLP Total Return Fund Announces Policy Change

Nuveen Investments, a leading global provider of investment services to institutions as well as individual investors, today announced that the Board of Trustees of the Nuveen Energy MLP Total Return Fund (NYSE: JMF) has approved a change to the fund’s investment policies. Consistent with sub-adviser’s active management style and the issuer weights of the fund’s performance benchmark, the Alerian MLP Index, the fund’s issuer concentration policy limit was increased from 10 percent to 15 percent.

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