Cohen & Steers Closed-End Opportunity Fund, Inc. (FOF) Notification of Sources of Distribution Under Section 19(a)

NEW YORK , Nov. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- This press release provides shareholders of Cohen & Steers Closed-End Opportunity Fund, Inc. (NYSE: FOF) (the "Fund") with information regarding the sources of the distribution to be paid on November 28, 2025 and cumulative distributions paid fiscal year-to-date. In December 2021, the Fund implemented a managed distribution policy in accordance with exemptive relief issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

PRNewsWire • Nov 26, 2025

FOF: Monthly Income With Solid Total Return

Cohen & Steers Closed-End Opportunity Fund pays a consistent monthly income and generates capital appreciation. Under the current macroenvironment, FOF can be a strong defensive play given its diversification and ability to reinvest monthly. The FOF CEF is actively managed by Cohen & Steers, a reputable global investment manager.

Seeking Alpha • Nov 15, 2025

FOF: High Quality Buy-And-Hold Income Fund

Cohen & Steers Closed-End Opportunity Fund remains a strong buy for long-term, income-focused investors, offering an 8% yield and monthly payouts with reliable dividend coverage. The fund's NAV growth, consistent earnings, and lack of leverage support its premium valuation and make it a resilient buy-and-hold option. While FOF's capital appreciation is modest, its total return is driven by high, tax-efficient distributions, preserving investor capital over the past decade.

Seeking Alpha • Sep 12, 2025

FOF: A Buy For Steady Monthly Income

Cohen & Steers Closed-End Opportunity Fund is a fund of top-tier closed-end funds with reliable monthly distributions. FOF offers a low expense ratio with quality active management, achieving high 5- and 10-year total returns. Cohen & Steers' active management, fund selection, and reputation justify the management fee and support long-term outperformance versus most peers.

Seeking Alpha • Jul 9, 2025

5 Best CEFs This Month For Yields Up To 14% (May 2025)

For income investors, closed-end funds, or CEFs, remain an attractive investment class that covers various asset classes and promises high distributions and reasonable total returns. CEFs, are generally characterized by higher volatility and deeper drawdowns than the broader market. For these reasons, they are not suited for everyone. In this monthly series, we highlight five CEFs with solid track records that pay high distributions and offer "excess" discounts. We try to separate the wheat from the chaff using our filtering process to select just five CEFs every month from around 500 closed-end funds.

Seeking Alpha • May 24, 2025

FOF: Now Trades At An Attractive Discount To NAV

Cohen & Steers Closed-End Opportunity Fund offers a blend of equities and income-focused assets, providing capital appreciation and consistent income, now trading at a discount to NAV. FOF's diversified strategy includes equity, commodity, and fixed income funds, with significant exposure to financials, technology, and energy sectors, ensuring versatility and reduced concentration risk. Despite market uncertainties and interest rate fluctuations, FOF has demonstrated strong fundamentals, consistent income generation, and resilience, making it attractive for long-term investors.

Seeking Alpha • Apr 26, 2025

Very Bad News For Closed-End Funds

Closed-end funds offer unique opportunities due to their discount/premium mechanisms, allowing share prices to deviate from net asset value per share in a wild manner. In general, CEFs often provide diverse exposure across equity and fixed-income portfolios, and they even offer exposure to hybrid portfolios, but also allowing for sector-specific exposure. One important note is that not all premiums or discounts indicate a buying or selling opportunity; instead, it can make more sense to examine relative value over historical periods.

Seeking Alpha • Feb 24, 2025

FOF: Precious Metals Are Nice, But Not The Premium Valuation

The Cohen & Steers Closed-End Opportunity Fund offers an 8.29% yield by investing in other high-yielding closed-end funds, appealing to income-seeking investors. Despite its high yield, the fund underperforms compared to similar funds and has a lower yield than its peers, which might deter some investors. The fund's recent performance has been mixed, with a slight decline in share price offset by distributions, but it still lags behind both equities and bonds.

Seeking Alpha • Feb 19, 2025

Distribution/Dividend Coverage: Why It's Important And What Investors Need To Know

"Distribution Coverage" sounds very important and critical. So what is it? It involves identifying the cash flow sources of distributions from different types of closed-end funds, and how stable and predictable those sources appear to be. Credit funds and Equity funds have very different sources of distributions - some very stable and predictable, others more volatile.

Seeking Alpha • Nov 27, 2024

FOF: Overweight Position To Equity Funds Is Nice Today

The Cohen & Steers Closed-End Opportunity Fund invests in other closed-end funds, offering an 8.12% yield, which is lower than some peers. The fund's flexibility to switch between equity and fixed-income closed-end funds allows it to adapt to varying economic conditions. The fund's strategy lends itself well to a "buy and forget" strategy, as it adjusts its own portfolio between equity and fixed-income funds based on current market conditions.

Seeking Alpha • Nov 15, 2024