Virtus Stone Harbor Emerging Markets Income Fund

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Virtus Stone Harbor Emerging Markets Income Fund (NYSE: EDF) is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company incorporated in the United States on December 22, 2010, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The Fund's primary investment objective is to maximize total return through income and capital appreciation by investing at least 80% of its net assets in emerging markets securities, including sovereign debt obligations, corporate debt securities, structured notes, convertible securities, floating rate commercial loans, and securitized loan participations. Managed by Virtus Investment Advisers, LLC and subadvised by Stone Harbor Investment Partners — a global institutional fixed-income investment manager and division of Virtus Fixed Income Advisers, LLC specializing in credit and asset allocation strategies — the Fund benchmarks its performance against the JP Morgan EMBI Global Diversified TR Index, the JPMorgan CEMBI Broad Diversified Index, and the JPMorgan GBI-EM Global Diversified Composite TR Index. With a market capitalization of approximately $177 million and a monthly distribution rate of approximately 13%, EDF offers investors focused exposure to the emerging markets fixed-income universe with an emphasis on income generation.