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1933 Act File
No. 333-168898
1940 Act File
No. 811-22455
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 17, 2022
 
 
 
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
 
FORM
N-2
 
 
 
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
 
Pre-Effective
Amendment No.
 
Post-Effective Amendment No. 1
 
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940
 
Amendment No. 4
 
 
 
COHEN & STEERS SELECT
PREFERRED AND INCOME FUND, INC.
Registrant Exact Name as Specified in Charter
 
 
280 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(212)
832-3232
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code)
Dana A. DeVivo, Esq.
Cohen & Steers Capital Management, Inc.
280 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
(212)
832-3232
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
 
 
Copy to:
Michael G. Doherty
Ropes & Gray LLP
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10036
 
 
Approximate Date of Commencement of Proposed Public Offering
: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement.
 
Check box if the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans.
 
Check box if any securities being registered in this Form will be offered on a delayed or continuous basis in reliance on Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933 (“Securities Act”), other than securities offered in connection with a dividend reinvestment plan.
 
Check box if this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction A.2 or a post-effective amendment thereto.
 
Check box if this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction B or a post-effective amendment thereto that will become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act.
 
Check box if this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction B to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act.
Is it proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box):
 
when declared effective pursuant to Section 8(c) of the Securities Act
The following boxes should only be included and completed if the registrant is making this filing in accordance with Rule 486 under the Securities Act.
 
immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
 
on (date) pursuant to paragraph (b)
 
60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)
 
on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)
If appropriate, check the following box:
 
This [post-effective] amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed [post-effective amendment] [registration statement].
 
This Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act and the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering is: _____.
 
This Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, and the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering is: _____.
 
This Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, and the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering is:
333-168898.
Check each box that appropriately characterizes the Registrant:
 
Registered
Closed-End
Fund
(closed-end
company that is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (“Investment Company Act”)).
 
Business Development Company
(closed-end
company that intends or has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act).
 
Interval Fund (Registered
Closed-End
Fund or a Business Development Company that makes periodic repurchase offers under
Rule 23c-3
under the Investment Company Act).
 
A.2 Qualified (qualified to register securities pursuant to General Instruction A.2 of this Form).
 
Well-Known Seasoned Issuer (as defined by Rule 405 under the Securities Act).
 
Emerging Growth Company (as defined by
Rule 12b-2
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”).
 
If an Emerging Growth Company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of Securities Act.
 
New Registrant (registered or regulated under the Investment Company Act for less than 12 calendar months preceding this filing).
 
 
 


EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File Nos. 333-168898 and 811-22455) is being filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), solely for the purpose of filing exhibits to the Registration Statement. Accordingly, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 consists only of a facing page, this explanatory note and Part C of the Registration Statement setting forth the exhibits to the Registration Statement. This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 does not modify any other part of the Registration Statement. Pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 shall become effective immediately upon filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The contents of the Registration Statement are hereby incorporated by reference.


PART C

OTHER INFORMATION

Item 25. Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

1.

Financial Statements

Part A—None.

Part B—Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm – included in SAI.

Statement of Assets and Liabilities – included in SAI.

 

2.

Exhibits

 

(a)(1)    Articles of Incorporation.(4)
(a)(2)    Articles of Amendment and Restatement.(1)
(b)    By-Laws.(1)
(c)    Not applicable.
(d)(i)    Form of specimen share certificate.(2)
(d)(ii)    The rights of security holders are defined in the Registrant’s Articles of Incorporation (Article FIFTH, SEVENTH and EIGHTH) and the Registrant’s By-Laws (Article II and Article VI).
(e)    Form of Dividend Reinvestment Plan.(2)
(f)    Not applicable.
(g)    Form of Investment Management Agreement.(1)
(h)(i)    Form of Underwriting Agreement.(2)
(h)(ii)    Form of Master Selected Dealer Agreement.(2)
(h)(iii)    Form of Master Agreement Among Underwriters.(2)
(i)    Not applicable.
(j)    Form of Custodian Agreement.(2)
(k)(i)    Form of Stock Transfer Agency Agreement.(2)
(k)(ii)    Form of Administration Agreement.(2)
(k)(iii)    Form of Co-Administration Agreement.(2)
(k)(iv)    Form of Structuring Fee Agreement with Wells Fargo Securities, LLC.(2)
(k)(v)    Form of Structuring Fee Agreement with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated.(2)
(k)(vi)    Rule 12d1-4 Unit Investment Trust of Closed-End Funds Investment Agreement Between the Registrant and FT Series, Dated January 20, 2022.*
(k)(vii)    Rule 12d1-4 Unit Investment Trust of Closed-End Funds Investment Agreement Between the Registrant and First Trust CEF Income Opportunity ETF, Dated January 21, 2022.*
(l)(i)    Opinion and Consent of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP.(2)
(l)(ii)    Opinion and Consent of Venable LLP.(2)
(m)    Not applicable.
(n)    Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.(3)
(o)    Not applicable.
(p)    Form of Investment Representation Letter.(2)
(q)    Not applicable.


(r)    Code of Ethics of the Fund and the Investment Manager.(2)
(s)    Power of Attorney.(1)

 

(1)    Incorporated by reference to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on October 25, 2010.
(2)    Incorporated by reference to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement filed with the Commission on November 18, 2010.
(3)    Incorporated by reference to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement filed with the Commission on November 22, 2010.
(4)    Incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement filed with the Commission on August 17, 2010.

 

*

Filed herewith.

Item 26. Marketing Arrangements

See the Form of Underwriting Agreement, Form of Master Selected Dealer Agreement, and Form of Master Agreement Among Underwriters, filed as Exhibit (h)(i), Exhibit (h)(ii), and Exhibit (h)(iii), respectively, to this Registration Statement.

Item 27. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution

The following table sets forth the expenses to be incurred in connection with the offer described in this Registration Statement:

 

Costs of Printing and Engraving

   $ 1,500  

Legal Fees and Expenses

     1,000  
  

 

 

 

Total

   $ 2,500  
  

 

 

 

Item 28. Persons Controlled by or under Common Control with Registrant

None.

Item 29. Number of Holders of Securities

Set forth below is the number of record holders as of June 30, 2022, of each class of securities of the Registrant:

 

Title of Class

   Number of Record Holders  

Common Shares of Beneficial interest, par value $0.001 per share

     9,111  

Item 30. Indemnification

It is the Registrant’s policy to indemnify its directors and officers to the maximum extent permitted by Section 2-418 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Maryland as set forth in Article NINTH of Registrant’s Articles of Incorporation, and Article VIII of the Registrant’s By-Laws. The liability of the Registrant’s directors and officers is dealt with in Article NINTH of Registrant’s Articles of Incorporation. The liability of Cohen & Steers Capital Management, Inc., the Registrant’s investment manager (the “Investment Manager”), for any loss suffered by the Registrant or its shareholders is set forth in Section 5 of the Investment Management Agreement.

The Registrant has agreed to indemnify the Underwriters of the Registrant’s common stock to the extent set forth in Exhibit 2(h)(i).


Insofar as indemnification for liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), may be permitted to the directors and officers, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable. If a claim for indemnification against such liabilities under the Securities Act (other than for expenses incurred in a successful defense) is asserted against the Registrant by the directors or officers in connection with the shares, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question of whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in such Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

Item 31. Business and other Connections of Investment Adviser

This information, with respect to the Investment Manager, is set forth under the caption “Management of the Fund” in the Prospectus and in the Statement of Additional Information, constituting Parts A and B, respectively, of this Registration Statement.

The following is a list of the directors and officers of the Investment Manager. Unless otherwise indicated, none of the persons listed below has had other business connections of a substantial nature during the past two fiscal years other than as stated in the Prospectus forming Part A of this Registration Statement.


Name

  

Title

  

Other Business/Position Held/Dates

Joseph M. Harvey    Chief Executive Officer, President and Director    *
Adam M. Derechin    Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer    *
Matthew S. Stadler    Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer    *
Francis C. Poli    Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary    *
Jon Cheigh    Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer    *
Robert Steers    Executive Chairman    *
Gerios Rovers    Executive Director    *
Alicia Dee    Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer    *
Douglas R. Bond    Executive Vice President    *
William F. Scapell    Executive Vice President    *
James Giallanza    Executive Vice President    *
Benjamin Morton    Executive Vice President    *
Matthew Pace    Executive Vice President    *
Daniel Charles    Executive Vice President    *
Daniel Longmuir    Executive Vice President    *
Greg Bottjer    Executive Vice President    *
James Corl    Executive Vice President    *
Christopher Parliman    Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Investments    *
Jeffrey Sharon    Executive Vice President    *
Jason Yablon    Executive Vice President    *
Paul Zettl    Executive Vice President    *
Brian Heller    Senior Vice President and Corporate Counsel    *
Elena Dulik    Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer    *
William Alstrin    Senior Vice President    *
Christopher Barrett    Senior Vice President    *
Neil Bloom    Senior Vice President    *
Brandon Brown    Senior Vice President    *
Michelle Butler    Senior Vice President    *
Brian Carlisle    Senior Vice President    *
Wai Ming Chan    Senior Vice President    *
Vincent Childers    Senior Vice President    *
Kristen Choi    Senior Vice President    *
Colleen Cleary    Senior Vice President    *
Adam Collins    Senior Vice President    *


Emily Conte    Senior Vice President    *
David Conway    Senior Vice President    *
Brian Cordes    Senior Vice President    *
Anthony Corriggio    Senior Vice President    *
Gavin Daly    Senior Vice President    *
Edward Delk    Senior Vice President and Global Chief Compliance Officer    *
Dana A. DeVivo    Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel    *
Jerry Dorost    Senior Vice President    *
Amy Duling    Senior Vice President    *
Austin Fagen    Senior Vice President    *
Dane Garrood    Senior Vice President    *
Leonard Geiger    Senior Vice President    *
Marcia Glass    Senior Vice President    *
Michael Graveline    Senior Vice President    *
Khushbu Gupta    Senior Vice President    *
Daniel Hafford    Senior Vice President    *
Marc Haynes    Senior Vice President    *
Daniel Hemberger    Senior Vice President    *
Andrew Humble    Senior Vice President    *
Khalid Husain    Senior Vice President    *
Melissa Iorio    Senior Vice President    *
Takeshi Itai    Senior Vice President    *
Yigal Jhirad    Senior Vice President    *
Jason Johnson    Senior Vice President    *
Matthew Karcic    Senior Vice President    *
Damon Karras    Senior Vice President    *
Louisa Kasper    Senior Vice President    *
Stephen Kenneally    Senior Vice President    *
Mathew Kirschner    Senior Vice President    *
Nicholas Koutsoftas    Senior Vice President    *
Albert Laskaj    Senior Vice President    *
Wai Lim Leung    Senior Vice President    *
Mary Liftin    Senior Vice President    *
Michael Loftus    Senior Vice President    *
Kevin Lotti    Senior Vice President    *
James McAdams    Senior Vice President and Controller    *
Brian Meta    Senior Vice President    *
Sharanya Mitchell    Senior Vice President    *
Stephen Murphy    Senior Vice President and Deputy Chief Compliance Officer    *
Mary Ruth Newman    Senior Vice President    *
Michael Nolan    Senior Vice President    *
Diana Noto    Senior Vice President    *
Pretash Nuculaj    Senior Vice President    *
Jeffrey Palma    Senior Vice President    *


Ronald Pucillo    Senior Vice President    *
Rogier Quirijns    Senior Vice President    *
Kevin Rochefort    Senior Vice President    *
Tyler Rosenlicht    Senior Vice President    *
Benjamin Ross    Senior Vice President    *
Christian Rusu    Senior Vice President    *
Evan Serton    Senior Vice President    *
Janine Seto-Moy    Senior Vice President    *
Alexander Shafran    Senior Vice President    *
James Shields    Senior Vice President    *
Rodirgo Soto    Senior Vice President    *
Kim Spellman    Senior Vice President    *
Hamid Tabib    Senior Vice President    *
Michael Hart    Senior Vice President    *
Ted Valenti    Senior Vice President    *
Pascal Van Garderen    Senior Vice President    *
Jason Vinikoor    Senior Vice President    *
Charles Wenzel    Senior Vice President    *
Michiru Wisely    Senior Vice President    *
Elaine Zaharis-Nikas    Senior Vice President    *
Christopher Balisky    Vice President    *
Jonathan Beshel    Vice President    *
Christopher Boland    Vice President    *
Ryan Bolton    Vice President    *
Jillian Boyer    Vice President    *
Jonathan Brailey    Vice President    *
Gabriel Buerkle    Vice President    *
Andrew Burd    Vice President    *
Peter Burnside    Vice President    *
Brian Casey    Vice President    *
Thomas Cassidy    Vice President    *
Keith Caswell    Vice President    *
William Cheng    Vice President    *
Catherine Cheng    Vice President    *
William Cheng    Vice President    *
Sean Cooney    Vice President    *
Alan Cooper    Vice President    *
Gregory Crawford    Vice President    *
Thuy Quynh Dang    Vice President    *
Matthew Darwin    Vice President    *
Christopher NeNunzio    Vice President    *
Yan Lin Ding    Vice President    *
Siyu Dong    Vice President    *


David Driscoll    Vice President    *
Jessen Fahey    Vice President    *
Mary Kathleen Flores    Vice President    *
William Formosa    Vice President    *
Steven Frank    Vice President    *
Celine Fung    Vice President    *
Kristin Garbarino    Vice President    *
Christopher Gasta    Vice President    *
John Geoghan    Vice President    *
Ryan Grealy    Vice President    *
Steven Grise    Vice President    *
Joseph Handelman    Vice President    *
Michael Hart    Vice President    *
Natalie Hedlund    Vice President    *
Elizabeth Deisler    Vice President    *
Christopher Jerejian    Vice President    *
Ryan Johann    Vice President    *
Robert Kastoff    Vice President    *
Colin Keane    Vice President    *
Charlotte Keenan    Vice President    *
Roberty Kennedy    Vice President    *
Michael King    Vice President    *
Stefanny Kisiel    Vice President    *
Harrison Klein    Vice President    *
Chi Yeung Ko    Vice President    *
Eric Kristenson    Vice President    *
Shirley Lam    Vice President    *
Kelly Lam    Vice President    *
Hin Fai Lam    Vice President    *
Alexander Laskey    Vice President    *
Celine Fung    Vice President    *
Alexander Laskey    Vice President    *
Joseph Lee    Vice President    *
Wincheng Lin    Vice President    *
Sean Magrath    Vice President    *
Kristine Manzi    Vice President    *
Matthew McAvoy    Vice President    *
Jamaal McDell    Vice President    *
Michael McGarry    Vice President    *
Raquel McLean    Vice President    *
Humberto Medina    Vice President    *
Ryan Medlock    Vice President    *
Bennett Meier    Vice President    *


Myra Mercado    Vice President    *
Michele Meyer    Vice President    *
Marcel Miu    Vice President    *
Taylor Mizzi    Vice President    *
Margaret Mo    Vice President    *
David Moonasar    Vice President    *
John Muth    Vice President    *
Christopher Nelson    Vice President    *
Natalie Okorie    Vice President    *
Alex Overby    Vice President    *
Saagar Parikh    Vice President    *
Jimmy Parsard    Vice President    *
Shruti Patel    Vice President    *
Christopher Pietretti    Vice President    *
Jeffrey Pike    Vice President    *
Damien Porras    Vice President    *
Anthony Puma    Vice President    *
Stephen Quan    Vice President    *
Allie Quine    Vice President    *
Brian Quinn    Vice President    *
Eldar Radovici    Vice President    *
Danielle Rizzaro    Vice President    *
Bobbi Lynn Roberts    Vice President    *
Boris Royzen    Vice President    *
Hideya Sakai    Vice President    *
Zarna Sanghvi    Vice President    *
Michael Schell    Vice President    *
Arun Sharma    Vice President    *
Joshua Silverman    Vice President    *
Dany Smith    Vice President    *
Kevin Sutccliffe    Vice President    *
Faezeh Taghvaee    Vice President    *
Lorraine Tutovic    Vice President    *
Daniel Tyshovnytsky    Vice President    *
Regina Vaitzman    Vice President    *
Jan Willem Van Kranenburg    Vice President    *
Brendan Walters    Vice President    *
Kryshna Wright    Vice President    *
Yue Zhang    Vice President    *
Jiyang Zhang    Vice President    *


Item 32. Location of Accounts and Records

The majority of the accounts, books and other documents required to be maintained by Section 31(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules thereunder will be maintained as follows: journals, ledgers, securities records and other original records will be maintained principally at the offices of the Registrant’s Sub-Administrator and Custodian, State Street Bank and Trust Company. All other records so required to be maintained will be maintained at the offices of Cohen & Steers Capital Management, Inc., 280 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017.

Item 33. Management Services

Not applicable.

Item 34. Undertakings

(1) Registrant undertakes to suspend the offering of shares until the prospectus is amended if, subsequent to the effective date of this Registration Statement, its net asset value declines more than ten percent from its net asset value as of the effective date of the Registration Statement or its net asset value increases to an amount greater than its net proceeds as stated in the prospectus.

(2) Not applicable.

(3) Not applicable.

(4) Not applicable.

(5) Registrant hereby undertakes that:

(a) for the purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of the Registration Statement in reliance on Rule 430A and contained in the form of prospectus filed by Registrant under Rule 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of the Registration Statement as of the time it was declared effective; and

(b) for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new Registration Statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of the securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(6) Registrant undertakes to send by first-class mail or other means designed to ensure equally prompt delivery, within two business days of receipt of a written or oral request, any Statement of Additional Information.


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, Registrant has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of New York, State of New York, on the 17th day of November, 2022.

 

COHEN & STEERS SELECT PREFERRED AND INCOME FUND, INC.
By:  

/s/ James Giallanza

  James Giallanza
  President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.

 

SIGNATURE

  

TITLE

 

DATE

By: /S/ JAMES GIALLANZA

  

President and Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)

  November 17, 2022
(JAMES GIALLANZA)  

By: /S/ ALBERT LASKAJ

  

Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial Officer)

  November 17, 2022
(ALBERT LASKAJ)  

*

   Chairman and Director   November 17, 2022
(JOSEPH M. HARVEY)  

*

   Director   November 17, 2022
(ADAM M. DERECHIN)  

*

   Director   November 17, 2022
(MICHAEL G. CLARK)  

*

   Director   November 17, 2022
(DEAN A. JUNKANS)  

*

   Director   November 17, 2022
(GEORGE GROSSMAN)  

*

   Director   November 17, 2022
(GERALD J. MAGINNIS)  

*

   Director   November 17, 2022
(JANE F. MAGPIONG)  

*

   Director   November 17, 2022
(DAPHNE L. RICHARDS)  

*

   Director   November 17, 2022
(RAMONA ROGERS-WINDSOR)  

* By: /S/ DANA A. DEVIVO

     November 17, 2022

Dana A. DeVivo

ATTORNEY-IN-FACT

 


Index of Exhibits

 

(k)(vi)   Rule 12d1-4 Unit Investment Trust of Closed-End Funds Investment Agreement Between the Registrant and FT Series, Dated January 20, 2022.
(k)(vii)   Rule 12d1-4 Unit Investment Trust of Closed-End Funds Investment Agreement Between the Registrant and First Trust CEF Income Opportunity ETF, Dated January 21, 2022.
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