<SEC-DOCUMENT>0001081400-21-001974.txt : 20211223
<SEC-HEADER>0001081400-21-001974.hdr.sgml : 20211223
<ACCEPTANCE-DATETIME>20211223102123
ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001081400-21-001974
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	DEF 14A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20220207
FILED AS OF DATE:		20211223
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20211223

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			ALLSPRING GLOBAL DIVIDEND OPPORTUNITY FUND
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001386067
		IRS NUMBER:				208293094
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1031

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		DEF 14A
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	811-22005
		FILM NUMBER:		211515560

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		525 MARKET STREET
		STREET 2:		FLOOR 13
		CITY:			SAN FRANCISCO
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94105
		BUSINESS PHONE:		857-776-4824

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		101 SEAPORT BLVD
		STREET 2:		FLOOR 11
		CITY:			BOSTON
		STATE:			MA
		ZIP:			02210

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	WELLS FARGO GLOBAL DIVIDEND OPPORTUNITY FUND
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20151216

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	WELLS FARGO ADVANTAGE GLOBAL DIVIDEND OPPORTUNITY FUND
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20100720

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	WELLS FARGO ADVANTAGE GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20100719
</SEC-HEADER>
<DOCUMENT>
<TYPE>DEF 14A
<SEQUENCE>1
<FILENAME>eodwrapper.htm
<DESCRIPTION>ALLSPRING GLOBAL DIVIDEND OPPORTUNITY FUND PROXY STATEMENT AND PROXY CARD
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">525 Market Street, 12th Floor, San Francisco, California 94105</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">ALLSPRING GLOBAL DIVIDEND OPPORTUNITY FUND</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Notice is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the &#8220;Meeting&#8221;) of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Allspring Global Dividend Opportunity Fund (the &#8220;Fund&#8221;) will be held on </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">February </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">7, 2022 at </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">10:00 a.m. Pacific time, at the principal office of the Fund, 525 Market Street, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">12th Floor, San Francisco, California 94105, for the following purposes:</font></p>
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               <td valign="top" style="padding-bottom:0pt;padding-top:0pt;width:97%;padding-left:2pt;align:left;valign:top;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">To transact such other business as may properly come before the Meeting or any </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">adjournments thereof.</font></td>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Shareholders of record at the close of business on </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">December 3, 2021 will be entitled </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">to vote at the Meeting to the extent described in the accompanying proxy statement.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">It is hoped that you will attend the Meeting, but if you cannot do so, please complete </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">and sign the enclosed proxy card and return it in the accompanying envelope as </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">promptly as possible or vote by telephone or Internet. Any shareholder attending the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Meeting can vote in person even though a proxy may have already been designated </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">by the shareholder. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><b>Instructions for the proper execution of the proxy card, as </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><b>well as instructions on how to vote by telephone and Internet, are set forth at </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><b>the end of the proxy statement.</b></font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE FUND UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS THAT YOU </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">VOTE FOR THE ELECTION OF EACH NOMINEE AS A TRUSTEE.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">By Order of the Board of Trustees,</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">R. Matthew Prasse</font><br><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Secretary</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:4;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><a name="chapter_2_7933"></a><a name="chapter_2-sect1_1_7933"></a><font style="text-transform:uppercase;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;"><b>ALLSPRING GLOBAL DIVIDEND OPPORTUNITY FUND</b></font></font><br><font style="text-transform:uppercase;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;"><b>PROXY STATEMENT</b></font></font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:6;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">This proxy statement is furnished in connection with the solicitation of proxies by and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">on behalf of the Board of Trustees (the &#8220;Board&#8221;) of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Allspring Global Dividend </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Opportunity Fund (the &#8220;Fund&#8221;) for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">&#8220;Meeting&#8221;) to be held at 525 Market Street, 12th Floor, San Francisco, California 94105, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">on </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">February 7, 2022 at </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">10:00 a.m. Pacific time. If you wish to participate in the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Meeting, you may submit the proxy card included with this proxy statement by mail, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">vote by telephone or Internet, or attend the Meeting in person. (See &#8220;Instructions for </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Executing Proxy Card&#8221; at the end of this proxy statement for voting instructions.) If </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">you wish to attend the Meeting in person, please call the Fund&#8217;s proxy solicitor, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Computershare Fund Services, at </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">866-209-5784 for instructions.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><b>Special Note Regarding the Meeting</b></font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">We intend to hold the Meeting in person. However, we are sensitive to the public </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">health and travel concerns our shareholders may have and recommendations that </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">public health officials may issue in light of the evolving coronavirus (COVID-19) </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">situation. As a result, we may impose additional procedures or limitations on Meeting </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">attendees or may decide to hold the Meeting in a different location or solely by </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">means of remote communication. We plan to announce any such updates on our </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">website (allspringglobal.com), and we encourage you to check this website prior to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the Meeting if you plan to attend.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">This proxy statement, the accompanying Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the proxy card and the Annual Report for the Fund for the fiscal year ended </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">October </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">31, 2021 will be first sent to shareholders on or about </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">December 31, 2021.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><b>IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING THE AVAILABILITY OF PROXY MATERIALS FOR </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><b>THE ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS TO BE HELD ON </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><b>FEBRUARY 7, 2022.</b></font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><b>You may obtain a copy of this proxy statement, the accompanying Notice of </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><b>Annual Meeting of Shareholders, the proxy card and the Annual Report for the </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><b>Fund for the period ended </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><b>October 31, 2021 without charge by visiting the </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><b>website indicated on your proxy card.</b></font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:10;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.424pt;"><b>PROXY SOLICITATION</b></font><hr color="#000000" width="100%" align="left" size="0.4"></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Board intends to bring before the Meeting the matter set forth in the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">accompanying notice. Holders of common shares (&#8220;Shares&#8221;) of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Fund (&#8220;Shareholders&#8221;) are being asked to vote for the re-election of Messrs. Timothy </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Penny and James Polisson and Ms. Pamela Wheelock as Trustees. You can vote by </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">returning your properly executed proxy card in the envelope provided or you may </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">vote by telephone or Internet by following the instructions at the end of this proxy </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">statement. When you complete and sign your proxy card, the proxies named will vote </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">on your behalf at the Meeting (or any adjournments thereof) exactly as you have </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">indicated. If you return a signed proxy card but no choice is specified, your Shares will </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">be voted FOR the election of each of the nominees named in the enclosed proxy card. </font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">If any other matters are properly presented at the Meeting for action, the persons </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">named as proxies will vote in accordance with the views of management of the Fund. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Shareholders, including a broker who may hold Shares on your behalf, may revoke a </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">proxy prior to the Meeting by giving timely written notice of such revocation to the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Fund at the address above, by submitting a subsequent proxy timely and in </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">accordance with the methods prescribed by this proxy statement, or by attending the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Meeting and voting in person.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Fund&#8217;s Second Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust (the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">&#8220;Declaration&#8221;) provides that the holders of thirty-three and a third percent (33 1/3%) </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">of the Shares issued and outstanding, present in person or by proxy, shall constitute a </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">quorum for the transaction of business at the Meeting. With regard to the election of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Trustees, votes may be cast FOR all nominees or votes may be WITHHELD either with </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">respect to all of the nominees or any individual nominee. Abstentions, broker </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">non-votes (i.e., Shares held by brokers or nominee entities as to which (i) instructions </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">have not been received from the beneficial owners or other persons entitled to vote </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">and (ii) the broker or nominee entity does not have discretionary voting power on a </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">particular matter), and votes that are withheld will count for purposes of determining </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">whether a quorum is present but will have no effect with respect to the election of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Trustees.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">A plurality vote of the shares represented in person or by proxy at the Meeting and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">entitled to vote is required for the election of Trustees.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">In the event a quorum is not present at the Meeting or a quorum is present but </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">sufficient votes to approve a proposal are not received, the persons named as proxies </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">may propose one or more adjournments of the Meeting to permit further solicitation </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">of proxies as to a proposal. The persons named as proxies will vote in favor of an </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">adjournment those votes that may be voted in favor of the proposal. The persons </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">named as proxies will vote against any such adjournment those votes marked as </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">withheld. The Meeting, whether or not a quorum is present, may be adjourned from </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">time to time by the vote of a majority of the Shares represented at the Meeting, either </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">in person or by proxy; or by the chair of the Meeting, in his or her discretion. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Abstentions and broker non-votes will not be voted on a motion to adjourn.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Any proposal for which sufficient favorable votes have been received by the time of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the Meeting may be acted upon and considered final regardless of whether the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Meeting is adjourned to permit additional solicitation with respect to any other </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">proposal. In certain circumstances in which the Fund has received sufficient votes to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">approve a matter being recommended for approval by the Board, the Fund may </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">request that brokers and nominee entities, in their discretion, withhold or </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">withdraw submission of broker non-votes in order to avoid the need for solicitation of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">additional votes in favor of the proposal.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Fund will bear the costs typically associated with the election of Trustees. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Solicitation may be undertaken by mail, telephone, facsimile and personal contact. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Fund has engaged Computershare Fund Services to solicit proxies from brokers, </font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">banks, other institutional holders and individual Shareholders for a fee of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">approximately $</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">3,427. This fee will be borne by the Fund.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:10;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.424pt;"><b>Voting Securities and Principal Holders Thereof</b></font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Shareholders of record at the close of business on </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">December 3, 2021 are entitled to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">vote at the Meeting or any adjournment thereof to the extent set forth in this proxy </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">statement. As of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">December 3, 2021 the Fund had outstanding </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">43,243,489 Shares. Each </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Share is entitled to one vote for each dollar, and a fractional vote for each fraction of a </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">dollar as to any matter on which the Share is entitled to vote.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Listed below are entities that have made filings with the Securities and Exchange </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Commission (&#8220;SEC&#8221;) disclosing beneficial ownership of 5% or more of the outstanding </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Shares of the Fund as of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">December 3, 2021. The filings are available at the SEC&#8217;s </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">website (</font><a name="DUMMY"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">www.sec.gov</font></a><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">).</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Common </font></font><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">(94987C103)</font></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;"><b>First Trust Portfolios L.P.</b></font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;margin-left:NaNpt;"><b>First Trust Advisors L.P.</b></font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;margin-left:NaNpt;"><b>The Charger Corporation</b></font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;margin-left:NaNpt;">120 East Liberty Drive, Suite 400</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;margin-left:NaNpt;">Wheaton, Illinois 60187</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">3,332,414</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">7.68%</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Common </font></font><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">(94987C103)</font></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;"><b>Morgan Stanley</b></font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;margin-left:NaNpt;"><b>Morgan Stanley Smith Barney </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;"><b>LLC</b></font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;margin-left:NaNpt;">1585 Broadway</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;margin-left:NaNpt;">New York, NY 10036</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2,703,015</font></p>
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               <td style="valign:top;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:6pt;align:right;width:3%;" valign="top"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">1.</font></td>
               <td style="padding-bottom:0pt;padding-top:-9.02pt;padding-left:2pt;padding-right:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">The filing by the listed entities indicates that the entities share dispositive power over the securities.</font></td>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:8;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">As of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">December 3, 2021, the officers and Trustees of the Fund as a group beneficially </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">owned in the aggregate less than 1% of the Shares of the Fund and, together with </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">their immediate family members, less than 1% of the outstanding securities of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC, the parent company of Allspring Funds </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Management, LLC (&#8220;Allspring Funds Management&#8221;), the Fund&#8217;s investment adviser, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">and Allspring Global Investments, LLC (&#8220;Allspring Investments&#8221;), the Fund&#8217;s </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">sub-adviser.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:9;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><a name="chapter_2-sect1_2_7933"></a><font style="text-transform:uppercase;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;"><b>I. ELECTION OF TRUSTEES (PROPOSAL 1)</b></font></font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:6;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Board has nominated </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">three persons for election to the Fund&#8217;s Board. Each of these </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">nominees currently serves on the Fund&#8217;s Board and is thus sometimes referred to as a </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">&#8220;nominee Trustee&#8221;. In accordance with the Declaration, the Trustees have been divided </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">into three classes (each a &#8220;Class&#8221;): Class I, Class II and Class III. The Trustees in each </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Class serve until the annual meeting for the year indicated: Class I, 2023; Class II, 2024; </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">and Class III, 2025; or, if later, until their respective successors are elected and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">qualified. At each subsequent annual meeting, the persons elected to the Class of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Trustees whose terms are expiring will generally be nominated for a three-year term. </font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0pt;"><b>3</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0.8828722778104767%;"><b>&#160;|&#160;</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0 pt;">Allspring Global Dividend Opportunity Fund Proxy Statement</font>&#160;</p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Staggered terms are adopted by many closed-end fund boards and can have the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">effect of promoting greater stability and long-term perspective. Staggered terms also </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">have the effect of limiting the ability of other entities or persons to acquire control of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">a board by delaying replacement of a majority of the board. If any nominee Trustee for </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">any reason becomes unable to serve or is unwilling to serve, the persons named as </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">proxies in the enclosed proxy card, in consultation with the Board, will vote for the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">election of such other person or persons as they may consider qualified. Each of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">three nominee Trustees has agreed to continue to serve as a Trustee on the Board if </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">elected by Shareholders. The nominee Trustees for Class III are expected to serve the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">full term until the 2025 annual meeting.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Board of the Fund proposes the following nominee Trustees for election at the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Meeting:</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Expiration of Term if </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Elected</b></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Timothy J. Penny</font></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Class III</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2025</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:6pt;"><sup>1</sup></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Class III</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2025</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:6pt;"><sup>1</sup></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Pamela Wheelock</font></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Class III</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2025</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:6pt;"><sup>1</sup></font></p>
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               <td style="valign:top;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:6pt;align:right;width:3%;" valign="top"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">1.</font></td>
               <td style="padding-bottom:0pt;padding-top:-9.02pt;padding-left:2pt;padding-right:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Or, if later, until their respective successors are elected and qualified.</font></td>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Isaiah </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Harris, Jr., </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">1952</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Trustee, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">since </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2010; </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Audit </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Committee </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Chair, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">since </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2019</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Retired. Chairman of the Board of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">CIGNA Corporation since 2009, and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Director since 2005. From 2003 to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2011, Director of Deluxe Corporation. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Prior thereto, President and CEO of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">BellSouth Advertising and Publishing </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Corp. from 2005 to 2007, President </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">and CEO of BellSouth Enterprises from </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2004 to 2005 and President of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">BellSouth Consumer Services from </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2000 to 2003. Emeritus member of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Iowa State University Foundation </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Board of Governors. Emeritus Member </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">of the Advisory Board of Iowa State </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">University School of Business. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Advisory Board Member, Palm Harbor </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Academy (private school). Mr. Harris is </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">a certified public accountant (inactive </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">status).</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">139</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">CIGNA </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Corporation</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">David F. </font></font><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Larcker, </font></font><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">1950</font></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Trustee, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">since </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2010</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">James Irvin Miller Professor of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Accounting at the Graduate School of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Business (Emeritus), Stanford </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">University, Director of the Corporate </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Governance Research Initiative and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Senior Faculty of The Rock Center for </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Corporate Governance since 2006. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">From 2005 to 2008, Professor of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Accounting at the Graduate School of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Business, Stanford University. Prior </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">thereto, Ernst &amp; Young Professor of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Accounting at The Wharton School, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">University of Pennsylvania from 1985 </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">to 2005.</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Name and </b></font></font><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Year of </b></font></font><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Birth</b></font></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Position </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Held </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>with </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Fund/</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Length </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>of Time </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Served</b></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Years</b></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Number </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>of </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Portfolios </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>in Fund </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Complex </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Overseen </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>by </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Trustee</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:5.5pt;"><b><sup>1</sup></b></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Other </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Directorships </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Held by </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Trustee </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>During Past </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>5 Years</b></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Jane A. </font></font><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Freeman, </font></font><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">1953</font></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Trustee, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">since </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2015; </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Chair </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Liaison, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">since </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2018</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Retired. From 2012 to 2014 and 1999 </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">to 2008, Chief Financial Officer of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Scientific Learning Corporation. From </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2008 to 2012, Ms. Freeman provided </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">consulting services related to strategic </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">business projects. Prior to 1999, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Portfolio Manager at Rockefeller &amp; Co. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">and Scudder, Stevens &amp; Clark. Board </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">member of the Harding Loevner </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Funds from 1996 to 2014, serving as </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">both Lead Independent Director and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">chair of the Audit Committee. Board </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">member of the Russell Exchange </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Traded Funds Trust from 2011 to 2012 </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">and the chair of the Audit Committee. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Ms. Freeman is also an inactive </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Chartered Financial Analyst.</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">139</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">None</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Judith M. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Johnson, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">1949</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:6pt;"><sup>2</sup></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Trustee, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">since </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2010</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Retired. Prior thereto, Chief Executive </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Officer and Chief Investment Officer of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Minneapolis Employees Retirement </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Fund from 1996 to 2008. Ms. Johnson </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">is an attorney, certified public </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">accountant and a certified managerial </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">accountant.</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">139</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">None</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;"><b>Class III - Non-Interested Nominee Trustees to serve until 2025 Annual Meeting of </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;"><b>Shareholders</b></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Timothy </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">J. Penny, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">1951</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Trustee, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">since </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2010; </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Chair, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">since </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2018</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">President and Chief Executive Officer </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">of Southern Minnesota Initiative </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Foundation, a non-profit organization, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">since 2007. Member of the Board of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Trustees of NorthStar Education </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Finance, Inc., a non-profit </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">organization, since 2007.</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Name and </b></font></font><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Year of </b></font></font><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Birth</b></font></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Position </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Held </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>with </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Fund/</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Length </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>of Time </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Served</b></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Years</b></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Number </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>of </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Portfolios </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>in Fund </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Complex </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Overseen </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>by </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Trustee</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:5.5pt;"><b><sup>1</sup></b></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Other </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Directorships </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Held by </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Trustee </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>During Past </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>5 Years</b></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">James G. </font></font><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Polisson, </font></font><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">1959</font></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Trustee, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">since </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2018</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Retired. Chief Marketing Officer, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Source (ETF) UK Services, Ltd, from </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2015 to 2017. From 2012 to 2015, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Principal of The Polisson Group, LLC, a </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">management consulting, corporate </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">advisory and principal investing </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">company. Chief Executive Officer and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Managing Director at Russell </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Investments, Global Exchange Traded </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Funds from 2010 to 2012. Managing </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Director of Barclays Global Investors </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">from 1998 to 2010 and Global Chief </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Marketing Officer for iShares and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Barclays Global Investors from 2000 to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2010. Trustee of the San Francisco </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Mechanics&#8217; Institute, a non-profit </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">organization, from 2013 to 2015. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Board member of the Russell </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Exchange Traded Fund Trust from </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2011 to 2012. Director of Barclays </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Global Investors Holdings </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Deutschland GmbH from 2006 to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2009. Mr. Polisson is an attorney and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">has a retired status with the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Massachusetts and District of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Columbia Bar Associations.</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Name and </b></font></font><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Year of </b></font></font><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Birth</b></font></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Position </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Held </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>with </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Fund/</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Length </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>of Time </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Served</b></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Years</b></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Number </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>of </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Portfolios </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>in Fund </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Complex </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Overseen </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>by </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Trustee</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:5.5pt;"><b><sup>1</sup></b></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Other </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Directorships </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Held by </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Trustee </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>During Past </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>5 Years</b></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Pamela </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Wheelock,</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;margin-left:NaNpt;">1959</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Trustee, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">since </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">January </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2020; </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">previously </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Trustee </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">from </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">January </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2018 to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">July </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2019</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Board member of the Destination </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Medical Center Economic </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Development Agency, Rochester, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Minnesota since 2019. Interim </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">President of the McKnight Foundation </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">from January to September 2020. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Acting Commissioner, Minnesota </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Department of Human Services, July </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2019 through September 2019. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Human Services Manager (part-time), </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Minnesota Department of Human </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Services, October 2019 through </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">December 2019. Chief Operating </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Officer, Twin Cities Habitat for </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Humanity from 2017 to 2019. Vice </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">President of University Services, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">University of Minnesota from 2012 to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2016. Prior thereto, on the Board of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Directors, Governance Committee and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Finance Committee for the Minnesota </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Philanthropy Partners (Saint Paul </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Foundation) from 2012 to 2018, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Interim Chief Executive Officer of Blue </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota from </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2011 to 2012, Chairman of the Board </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">from 2009 to 2012 and Board Director </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">from 2003 to 2015. Vice President, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Leadership and Community </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Engagement, Bush Foundation, Saint </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Paul, Minnesota (a private foundation) </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">from 2009 to 2011. Executive Vice </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">President and Chief Financial Officer, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Minnesota Sports and Entertainment </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">from 2004 to 2009 and Senior Vice </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">President from 2002 to 2004. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Executive Vice President of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Minnesota Wild Foundation from 2004 </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">to 2008. Commissioner of Finance, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">State of Minnesota, from 1999 to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2002. Currently Board Chair of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Minnesota Wild Foundation since </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2010.</font></p>
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               <td style="padding-bottom:0pt;padding-top:-9.02pt;padding-left:2pt;padding-right:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">As of October 31, 2021, the Fund Complex consisted of 139 funds.</font></td>
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               <td style="padding-bottom:0pt;padding-top:-9.02pt;padding-left:2pt;padding-right:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Ms. Johnson has resigned from the Board effective December 31, 2021.</font></td>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:8;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The following table contains specific information about the dollar range of equity </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">securities beneficially owned by each Trustee and nominee Trustee in the Fund and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the aggregate dollar range of equity securities in other funds in the Fund Complex </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">overseen by the Trustees.</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Name of Trustee</b></font></font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="background-color:#F1F1F1;;border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Dollar Range of Equity Securities in the </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Fund as of October 31, 2021</b></font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="background-color:#F1F1F1;;border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Aggregate Dollar </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Range of Equity </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Securities in the Fund </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Complex as of </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>October 31, 2021</b></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;"><b>Non-Interested Nominee Trustees</b></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Timothy J. Penny</font></font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$1-$10,000</font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Over $100,000</font></p>
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               <td align="left" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="background-color:#F1F1F1;;border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">James G. Polisson</font></font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$1-$10,000</font></p>
               </td>
               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Over $100,000</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Pamela Wheelock</font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$1-$10,000</font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Over $100,000</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;"><b>Non-Interested Trustees</b></font></p>
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               <td align="left" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="background-color:#F1F1F1;;border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">William R. Ebsworth</font></font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$10,001-$50,000</font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Over $100,000</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Jane A. Freeman</font></font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$1-$10,000</font></p>
               </td>
               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Over $100,000</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Isaiah Harris, Jr.</font></font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$1-$10,000</font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Over $100,000</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Judith M. Johnson</font></font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$1-$10,000</font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Over $100,000</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">David F. Larcker</font></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$1-$10,000</font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Over $100,000</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Olivia S. Mitchell</font></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$1-$10,000</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Over $100,000</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:12.5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.424pt;"><b>The Board of Trustees and Its Leadership Structure</b></font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Overall responsibility for oversight of the Fund rests with the Board. The Board has </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">engaged Allspring Funds Management to manage the Fund on a day-to-day basis. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Board is responsible for overseeing Allspring Funds Management and other </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">service providers in the operation of the Fund in accordance with the provisions of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the &#8220;1940 Act&#8221;), applicable provisions of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Delaware law, other applicable laws and the Declaration.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Board is currently composed of nine members, each of whom is not an &#8220;interested </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">person&#8221; of the Fund, as defined in the 1940 Act (an &#8220;Independent Trustee&#8221;). The Board </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">currently conducts regular in-person meetings five times a year. In addition, the Board </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">may hold special in-person or telephonic meetings or informal conference calls to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">discuss specific matters that may arise or require action between regular meetings.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Independent Trustees have engaged independent legal counsel to assist them in </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">performing their oversight responsibilities. The Board has appointed an Independent </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Trustee to serve in the role of Chairman. The Chairman&#8217;s role is to preside at all </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">meetings of the Board and to act as a liaison with respect to governance-related </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">matters with service providers, officers, attorneys, and other Trustees generally </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">between meetings. The Chairman may also perform such other functions as may be </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">delegated by the Board from time to time. Timothy Penny serves as Chairman of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Board. In order to assist the Chairman in maintaining effective communications with </font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0 pt;">Allspring Global Dividend Opportunity Fund Proxy Statement</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0 pt;">&#160;|&#160;</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0.8828722778104767%;"><b>10</b></font>&#160;</p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the other Trustees and Allspring Funds Management, the Board has appointed a Chair </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Liaison to work with the Chairman to coordinate Trustee communications and to help </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">coordinate timely responses to Trustee inquiries relating to board governance and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">fiduciary matters. The Chair Liaison serves for a one-year term, which may be </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">extended with the approval of the Board. Ms. Freeman serves as Chair Liaison. Except </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">for any duties specified herein or pursuant to the Declaration, the designation of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Chairman or Chair Liaison does not impose on such Independent Trustee any duties, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">obligations or liability that are greater than the duties, obligations or liability imposed </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">on such person as a member of the Board generally.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Board also has established a Nominating and Governance Committee, an Audit </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Committee and a Valuation Committee to assist the Board in the oversight and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">direction of the business and affairs of the Fund and from time to time may establish </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">informal working groups to review and address the policies and practices of the Fund </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">with respect to certain specified matters. Additionally, the Board has established an </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">investment team to review in detail the performance of the Fund, to meet with </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">portfolio managers, and to report back to the full Board. The Board occasionally </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">engages independent consultants to assist it in evaluating initiatives or proposals. The </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Board believes that the Board&#8217;s current leadership structure is appropriate because it </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">allows the Board to exercise informed and independent judgment over matters under </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">its purview, and it allocates areas of responsibility among committees of Trustees and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the full Board in a manner that enhances effective oversight. The leadership structure </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">of the Board may be changed, at any time and in the discretion of the Board, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">including in response to changes in circumstances or the characteristics of the Fund.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">As noted above, the Board has established a standing Nominating and Governance </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Committee, a standing Audit Committee and a standing Valuation Committee to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">assist the Board in the oversight and direction of the business and affairs of the Fund. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Nominating and Governance Committee and Audit Committee operate pursuant </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">to charters approved by the Board. The Valuation Committee&#8217;s responsibilities are set </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">forth in Valuation Procedures approved by the Board. Each Independent Trustee is a </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">member of the Fund&#8217;s Nominating and Governance Committee, Audit Committee and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Valuation Committee.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><u style="0.5 #000000 solid baseline 0 1 0">Nominating and Governance Committee</u></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">. Except with respect to any trustee </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">nomination made by an eligible Shareholder or Shareholder group as permitted by </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">applicable law and applicable provisions of the Declaration and By-Laws of the Fund, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the Nominating and Governance Committee shall make all nominations for </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">membership on the Board. The Nominating and Governance Committee shall </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">evaluate each candidate&#8217;s qualifications for Board membership and his or her </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">independence from the Fund&#8217;s investment adviser and sub-adviser and, as it deems </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">appropriate, other principal service providers. Olivia Mitchell serves as the Chair of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Nominating and Governance Committee.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Nominating and Governance Committee has adopted procedures by which a </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Shareholder may properly submit a nominee recommendation for the Nominating </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">and Governance Committee&#8217;s consideration, which are set forth in Appendix A to the </font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Fund&#8217;s Nominating and Governance Committee Charter. The Shareholder must </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">submit any such recommendation (a &#8220;Shareholder Recommendation&#8221;) in writing to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the Fund, to the attention of the Fund&#8217;s Secretary, at the address of the principal </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">executive office of the Fund. The Nominating and Governance Committee has full </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">discretion to reject candidates recommended by Shareholders, and there is no </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">assurance that any such person properly recommended and considered by the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Nominating and Governance Committee will be nominated for election to the Board. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">For more information relating to Shareholder recommendations, please see the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Fund&#8217;s Nominating and Governance Committee Charter attached as Exhibit A.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Nominating and Governance Committee may from time-to-time propose </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">nominations of one or more individuals to serve as members of an &#8220;advisory board,&#8221; as </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">such term is defined in Section 2(a)(1) of the 1940 Act.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><u style="0.5 #000000 solid baseline 0 1 0">Valuation Committee</u></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">. The Board has delegated to the Valuation Committee the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">authority to take any action regarding the valuation of portfolio securities that the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Valuation Committee deems necessary or appropriate, including determining the fair </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">value of securities between regularly scheduled Board meetings in instances where </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">that determination has not otherwise been delegated to the valuation team of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Allspring Funds Management (&#8220;Management Valuation Team&#8221;). The Board considers </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">for ratification at each quarterly meeting any valuation actions taken during the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">previous quarter by the Valuation Committee or by the Management Valuation Team </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">other than pursuant to Board-approved methodologies. Any one member of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Valuation Committee may constitute a quorum for a meeting of the committee.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><u style="0.5 #000000 solid baseline 0 1 0">Audit Committee</u></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">. The Audit Committee oversees the Fund&#8217;s accounting and financial </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">reporting policies, including their internal controls over financial reporting; oversees </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the quality and objectivity of the Fund&#8217;s financial statements and the independent </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">audit thereof; and interacts with the Fund&#8217;s independent registered public accounting </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">firm on behalf of the full Board and with appropriate officers of the Fund. Isaiah Harris, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Jr. serves as the Chairman of the Audit Committee.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Board and individual committees met the following number of times during the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">most recently completed fiscal year:</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">4</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:10;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.424pt;"><b>The Board of Trustees and Risk Oversight</b></font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Fund is subject to a number of risks, including investment, compliance, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">operational, and valuation risks, among others. Day-to-day risk management </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">functions are subsumed within the responsibilities of Allspring Funds Management, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Allspring Investments and other service providers (depending on the nature of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">risk), who carry out the Fund&#8217;s investment management and business affairs. Each of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Allspring Funds Management, Allspring Investments and other service providers have </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">their own, independent approach to risk management, and their policies and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">methods of carrying out risk management functions will depend, in part, on their </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">individual priorities, resources and controls.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Risk oversight forms part of the Board&#8217;s general oversight of the Fund and is </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">addressed as part of various Board and Committee activities. The Board recognizes </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">that it is not possible to identify all of the risks that may affect the Fund or to develop </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">processes and controls to eliminate or mitigate their occurrence or effects and that it </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">is necessary for the Fund to bear certain risks (such as investment-related risks) to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">pursue its goals. As part of its regular oversight of the Fund, the Board, directly or </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">through a Committee, interacts with and reviews reports from, among others, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Allspring Funds Management, Allspring Investments, the Chief Compliance Officer of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the Fund, the Chief Risk Officer of Allspring Funds Management, the independent </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">registered public accounting firm for the Fund, and internal compliance auditors for </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Allspring Funds Management or its affiliates, as appropriate, regarding risks faced by </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the Fund and relevant risk functions. The Board, with the assistance of its investment </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">teams, also reviews investment policies and risks in connection with its review of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Fund&#8217;s performance. The Board has appointed a Chief Compliance Officer who </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">oversees the implementation and testing of the Fund&#8217;s compliance program and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">regularly reports to the Board regarding compliance matters for the Fund and its </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">principal service providers. Allspring Funds Management has appointed a Chief Risk </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Officer to enhance the framework around the assessment, management, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">measurement and monitoring of risk indicators and other risk matters concerning the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Fund and develop periodic reporting of risk management matters to the Board. In </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">addition, as part of the Board&#8217;s periodic review of the Fund&#8217;s advisory, sub-advisory </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">and other service provider agreements, the Board may consider risk management </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">aspects of their operations and the functions for which they are responsible. With </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">respect to valuation, the Board oversees a management valuation team comprised of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">officers and employees of Allspring Funds Management, has approved and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">periodically reviews written valuation policies and procedures applicable to valuing </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the Fund portfolio investments, and has established a valuation committee of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Trustees. The Board may, at any time and in its discretion, change the manner in which </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">it conducts its risk oversight role.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Declaration does not set forth any specific qualifications to serve as a Trustee. The </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Charter and the Statement of Governance Principles of the Nominating and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Governance Committee also do not set forth any specific qualifications, but do set </font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">forth certain factors that the Nominating and Governance Committee may take into </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">account in considering Trustee candidates and a process for evaluating potential </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">conflicts of interest, which identifies certain disqualifying conflicts.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Among the attributes or skills common to all Trustees are their ability to review </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">critically, evaluate, question and discuss information provided to them, to interact </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">effectively with the other Trustees, Allspring Funds Management, the Fund&#8217;s </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">sub-adviser(s), other service providers, counsel and the independent registered public </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">accounting firm, and to exercise effective and independent business judgment in the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">performance of their duties as Trustees. Each Trustee&#8217;s ability to perform his or her </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">duties effectively has been attained through the Trustee&#8217;s business, consulting, public </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">service, professional and/or academic positions and through experience from service </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">as a board member of the Fund and the other funds in the Fund Complex (and/or in </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">other capacities, including for any predecessor funds), other registered investment </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">companies, public companies, and/or non-profit entities or other organizations. Each </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Trustee&#8217;s ability to perform his or her duties effectively also has been enhanced by his </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">or her educational background, professional training, and/or other life experiences. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The specific experience, qualifications, attributes and/or skills that led to the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">conclusion that a Trustee should serve as a Trustee of the Fund are as set forth below.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><i>William R. Ebsworth</i></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">. Mr. Ebsworth has served as a Trustee of the Trusts in the Fund </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Complex since January 1, 2015. He also served as a trustee of Asset Allocation Trust </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">from 2015 to 2018. From 1984 to 2013, he held positions as an equities analyst, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">portfolio manager, and research director at Fidelity Management and Research </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Company in Boston, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, and retired in 2013 as Chief Investment </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Officer of Fidelity Strategic Advisers, Inc., where he led a team of investment </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">professionals managing client assets. Prior thereto, he served as a Board member of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Hong Kong Securities Clearing Co., Hong Kong Options Clearing Corp., the Thailand </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">International Fund, Ltd., Fidelity Investments Life Insurance Company, and Empire </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Fidelity Investments Life Insurance Company. Mr. Ebsworth is a CFA&#174; charterholder.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><i>Jane A. Freeman.</i></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"> Ms. Freeman has served as a Trustee of the Trusts in the Fund </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Complex since January 1, 2015, and as Chair Liaison since 2018. She also served as a </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">trustee of Asset Allocation Trust from 2015 to 2018. From 2012 to 2014 and 1999 to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">2008, Ms. Freeman served as the Chief Financial Officer of Scientific Learning </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Corporation. From 2008 to 2012, Ms. Freeman provided consulting services related to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">strategic business projects. Prior to joining Scientific Learning, Ms. Freeman was </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">employed as a portfolio manager at Rockefeller &amp; Co. and Scudder, Stevens &amp; Clark. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">She served as a board member of the Harding Loevner Funds from 1996 to 2014, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">serving as both Lead Independent Director and chair of the Audit Committee. She </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">also served as a board member of the Russell Exchange Traded Funds Trust from 2011 </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">to 2012 and as chair of the Audit Committee. Ms. Freeman is also an </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">inactive Chartered Financial Analyst.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">from 2010 to 2018. He has been the Chairman of the Board of CIGNA Corporation </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">since 2009, and has been a director of CIGNA Corporation since 2005. He served as a </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">director of Deluxe Corporation from 2003 to 2011. As a director of these and other </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">public companies, he has served on board committees, including governance, audit </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">and compensation committees. Mr. Harris served in senior executive positions, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">including as president, chief executive officer, vice president of finance and/or chief </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">financial officer, of operating companies for approximately 20 years. Mr. Harris has </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">been determined by the Board to be an audit committee financial expert as such term </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">is defined in the applicable rules of the SEC.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><i>Judith M. Johnson.</i></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"> Ms. Johnson has served as a Trustee of the Trusts in the Fund </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Complex since 2008 and as Chair of the Audit Committee from 2009 to 2019. She also </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">served as a trustee and chair of the audit committee of Asset Allocation Trust from </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">2010 to 2018. She served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">of the Minneapolis Employees Retirement Fund for twelve years until her retirement </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">in 2008. Ms. Johnson is a licensed attorney, as well as a certified public accountant and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">a certified managerial accountant. Ms. Johnson has been determined by the Board to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">be an audit committee financial expert as such term is defined in the applicable rules </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">of the SEC.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><i>David F. Larcker.</i></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"> Mr. Larcker has served as a Trustee of the Trusts in the Fund Complex </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">since 2009 and was an Advisory Board member from 2008 to 2009. He also served as a </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">trustee of Asset Allocation Trust from 2010 to 2018. Mr. Larcker is the James Irvin </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Miller Professor of Accounting at the Graduate School of Business (Emeritus) of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Stanford University. He is also the Morgan Stanley Director of the Center for </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Leadership Development and Research and Co-director of The Rock Center for </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Corporate Governance at Stanford University. He has been a professor of accounting </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">for over 30 years. He has written numerous articles on a range of topics, including </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">managerial accounting, financial statement analysis and corporate governance.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><i>Olivia S. Mitchell.</i></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"> Ms. Mitchell has served as a Trustee of the Trusts in the Fund </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Complex since 2006 and as Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">since 2018. She also served as a trustee of Asset Allocation Trust from 2010 to 2018. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Ms. Mitchell is the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor at the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also Professor of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Insurance/Risk Management and Business Economics/Policy. She also serves in senior </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">positions with academic and policy organizations that conduct research on pensions, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">retirement, insurance, risk management, and related topics, including as Executive </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Director of the Pension Research Council and Director of the Boettner Center on </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Pensions and Retirement Research, both at the University of Pennsylvania. She has </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">taught on and served as a consultant on economics, insurance, and risk management, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">served as Department Chair, advised numerous governmental entities, and written </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">numerous articles and books on topics including retirement systems, private and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">social insurance, and health and retirement policy.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">He also served as a trustee of Asset Allocation Trust from 2010 to 2018. He has been </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">President and Chief Executive Officer of Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">since 2007. He also serves as a member of the board of another non-profit </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">organization. Mr. Penny was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 12 </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">years representing Southeastern Minnesota&#8217;s First Congressional District.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><i>James G. Polisson.</i></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"> Mr. Polisson has served as a Trustee of the Trusts in the Fund </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Complex since 2018 and was an Advisory Board member in 2017. Mr. Polisson has </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">extensive experience in the financial services industry, including over 15 years in the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">ETF industry. From 2015 to July 31, 2017, Mr. Polisson was the Chief Marketing Officer </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">of Source (ETF) UK Services, Ltd., one of the largest providers of exchange-traded </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">products in Europe. From 2012 to 2015, Mr. Polisson was Principal of The Polisson </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Group, LLC, a management consulting, corporate advisory and principal investing </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">firm. Prior to 2012, Mr. Polisson was Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Russell Investments&#8217; global ETF business from 2010 to 2012. He was also a member of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the Board of Trustees of Russell Exchange Traded Funds Trust, where he served as </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer from 2011 to 2012. Mr. Polisson also </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">served as Chief Marketing Officer for Barclays Global Investors from 2000 to 2010, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">where he led global marketing for the iShares ETF business.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><i>Pamela Wheelock.</i></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"> Ms. Wheelock has served as a Trustee of the Trusts in the Fund </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Complex since January 2020. She previously served as a Trustee of the Trusts in the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Fund Complex from January 2018 until July 2019 and was an Advisory Board member </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">in 2017. Ms. Wheelock has been a Board member of the Destination Medical Center </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Economic Development Agency in Rochester, Minnesota since 2019. She was Interim </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">President of the McKnight Foundation from January to September 2020. She served </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">as the acting Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Services from </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">July 2019 through September 2019 and as the Human Services Manager (part-time) </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">of the Minnesota Department of Human Services from October 2019 through </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">December 2019. Ms. Wheelock has more than 25 years of leadership experience in the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">private, public and nonprofit sectors. Ms. Wheelock was the Chief Operating Officer of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity from 2017 through 2019. Prior to joining Habitat for </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Humanity in 2017, Ms. Wheelock was on the Board of Directors, Governance </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Committee and Finance Committee for the Minnesota Philanthropy Partners (Saint </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Paul Foundation) and the Vice President of University Services at the University of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Minnesota from 2012 through 2016, where she served as chief operations officer of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the University. She also served as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer of Blue </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota from 2011 to 2012, Vice President of the Bush </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Foundation from 2009 to 2011, and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Officer of Minnesota Sports and Entertainment from 2004 to 2009. Ms. Wheelock </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">served as the Executive Budget Officer and Finance Commissioner for the State of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Minnesota from 1999 to 2002.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Nominating and Governance Committee has not adopted a specific policy on </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">diversity or a particular definition of diversity, when considering nominees, the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Nominating and Governance Committee generally considers the manner in which </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">each nominee&#8217;s professional experience, background, skills in matters that are </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">relevant to the oversight of the funds (e.g., investment management, distribution, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">accounting, trading, compliance and legal), and general leadership experience are </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">complementary to the existing Trustees&#8217; attributes.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The members of the Nominating and Governance Committee are &#8220;independent&#8221; as </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">defined in the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">New York Stock Exchange&#8217;s listing standards. The Board has adopted a </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">written Nominating and Governance Committee Charter which is attached to this </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">proxy statement as Exhibit A. The Nominating and Governance Committee Charter </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">describes the Nominating and Governance Committee functions. The Nominating </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">and Governance Committee reviews the Nominating and Governance Committee </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Charter at least annually and may recommend changes to the Board.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Board has approved a policy pursuant to which the Board may consider nominees </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">for election as Trustees, which is described further in the Nominating and Governance </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Committee Charter. The policy states the minimum nominee qualifications, the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">process for identifying and evaluating trustee nominees and the process for </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">considering nominees recommended by Shareholders.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Board has approved a policy for communications with Board members. Any </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Shareholder who wishes to send a communication to the Board should send the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">communication to the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Allspring Global Dividend Opportunity Fund Board of Trustees, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">525 Market Street, 12th Floor, San Francisco, California 94105. If a Shareholder wishes </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">to send a communication directly to an individual Trustee or to a committee of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Fund&#8217;s Board, the communication should be specifically addressed to such individual </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Trustee or committee and sent to the above address.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:10;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.424pt;"><b>Trustee Attendance Policy at Annual Shareholder Meetings</b></font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Funds that are listed on the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">New York Stock Exchange are required each year to hold </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">an Annual Meeting of Shareholders. It is the policy of the Fund to encourage at least </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">one Trustee to attend each such Annual Meeting of Shareholders either in person, by </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">video conference, or by teleconference. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Ms. Olivia Mitchell attended the previous </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">year&#8217;s Annual Meeting of Shareholders telephonically.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:10;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.424pt;"><b>Current Officers</b></font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The following table contains specific information about each executive officer of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Fund as of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">October 31, 2021, including: name, address and year of birth, position held </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">with the Fund, length of time served and principal occupation(s) during the past five </font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Name, Address and Year of </b></font></font><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Birth</b></font></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;"><b>Andrew Owen</b></font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;margin-left:NaNpt;">525 Market Street</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;margin-left:NaNpt;">San Francisco, CA 94105</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;margin-left:NaNpt;">Year of Birth: 1960</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">President, since </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2017</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">President, Chief Executive Officer and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Director of Allspring Funds Management, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">LLC since 2017 and co-president of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Galliard Capital Management, LLC, an </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">affiliate of Allspring Funds Management, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">LLC, since 2019. Prior thereto, Head of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Affiliated Managers, Allspring Global </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Investments, from 2014 to 2019 and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Executive Vice President responsible for </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">marketing, investments and product </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">development for Allspring Funds </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Management, LLC, from 2009 to 2014. In </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">addition, Mr. Owen was an Executive Vice </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">President of Wells Fargo &amp; Company from </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2014 to 2021.</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;"><b>Jeremy M. DePalma</b></font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;margin-left:NaNpt;">101 Seaport Blvd</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;margin-left:NaNpt;">Boston, MA 02210</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;margin-left:NaNpt;">Year of Birth: 1974</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Treasurer since, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2012 (for certain </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">funds in the Fund </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Complex); since </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2021 (for the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">remaining funds in </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">the Fund Complex)</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Senior Vice President of Allspring Funds </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Management, LLC since 2009. Senior Vice </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">President of Evergreen Investment </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Management Company, LLC from 2008 to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2010 and head of the Fund Reporting and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Control Team within Fund Administration </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">from 2005 to 2010.</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;"><b>Kate McKinley</b></font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;margin-left:NaNpt;">101 Seaport Blvd</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;margin-left:NaNpt;">Boston, MA 02210</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;margin-left:NaNpt;">Year of Birth: 1977</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Chief Legal Officer </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">and Chief </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Compliance Officer, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">since 2021</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Chief Legal Officer of Allspring Global </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Investments since 2021. Prior thereto, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">held various roles at State Street Global </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Advisors, Inc. beginning in 2010, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">including serving as Senior Vice President </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">and General Counsel from 2019 to 2021. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Previously served as Assistant General </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Counsel for Bank of America Corporation </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">from 2005 to 2010 and as an Associate at </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">WilmerHale from 2002 to 2005.</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Secretary, since </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">2021</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">LLC affiliate for whom the individual serves. The Fund&#8217;s principal executive officers did </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">not receive any compensation or expense reimbursement from the Fund for the fiscal </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">year ended </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">October 31, 2021. The Fund reimburses all Trustees for expenses incurred </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">in connection with attending meetings of the Board. The Trustees do not receive any </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">pension or retirement benefits from the Fund. For the fiscal year ended </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">October 31, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">2021, the Trustees earned the following compensation from the Fund and the Fund </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Complex:</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Total Compensation From the </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Fund and Fund Complex Paid to </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>Trustees</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:5.5pt;"><sup><b>1</b></sup></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;"><b>Non-Interested Nominee Trustees</b></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Timothy J. Penny</font></font></p>
               </td>
               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$2,892</font></p>
               </td>
               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$402,000</font></p>
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               <td align="left" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="background-color:#F1F1F1;;border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">James G. Polisson</font></font></p>
               </td>
               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$2,352</font></p>
               </td>
               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$327,000</font></p>
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               <td align="left" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="background-color:#F1F1F1;;border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Pamela Wheelock</font></font></p>
               </td>
               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$2,352</font></p>
               </td>
               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$327,000</font></p>
               </td>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;"><b>Non-Interested Trustees</b></font></p>
               </td>
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               <td align="left" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="background-color:#F1F1F1;;border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">William R. Ebsworth</font></font></p>
               </td>
               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$2,352</font></p>
               </td>
               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$327,000</font></p>
               </td>
            </tr>
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               <td align="left" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="background-color:#F1F1F1;;border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Jane A. Freeman</font></font></p>
               </td>
               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$2,496</font></p>
               </td>
               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$347,000</font></p>
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               <td align="left" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="background-color:#F1F1F1;;border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Isaiah Harris, Jr.</font></font></p>
               </td>
               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$2,568</font></p>
               </td>
               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$357,000</font></p>
               </td>
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               <td align="left" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="background-color:#F1F1F1;;border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Judith M. Johnson</font></font></p>
               </td>
               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$2,341</font></p>
               </td>
               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$325,500</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$2,352</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$2,496</font></p>
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               <td style="padding-bottom:0pt;padding-top:-9.02pt;padding-left:2pt;padding-right:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">As of October 31, 2021, the Fund Complex consisted of 139 funds.</font></td>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:12;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><a name="chapter_2-sect1_3_7933"></a><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.424pt;"><b>Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance</b></font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires the Fund&#8217;s Trustees, principal executive </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">officers and certain other persons (&#8220;Reporting Entities&#8221;) to file reports regarding </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">ownership of, and transactions in, the Fund&#8217;s securities with the SEC. Copies of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">required filings must also be furnished to the Fund. During the most recent fiscal year, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the Fund believes that all reports required to be filed by the Reporting Entities were </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">filed on a timely basis.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Forms 3, 4, and 5 for the officers and Trustees of the Fund may be accessed through </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the Allspring Funds website at www.allspringglobal.com.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:10;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><a name="chapter_2-sect1_4_7933"></a><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.424pt;"><b>SERVICE PROVIDERS</b></font><hr color="#000000" width="100%" align="left" size="0.4"></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Allspring Funds Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Allspring Global </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Investments Holdings, LLC, a holding company indirectly owned by certain private </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">funds of GTCR LLC and Reverence Capital Partners, L.P. currently serves as both the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Fund&#8217;s adviser and administrator. The principal business address of Allspring Funds </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Management is 525 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94105.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0pt;"><b>19</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0.8828722778104767%;"><b>&#160;|&#160;</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0 pt;">Allspring Global Dividend Opportunity Fund Proxy Statement</font>&#160;</p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Allspring Investments, a wholly owned subsidiary of Allspring Global Investments </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Holdings, LLC and an affiliate of Allspring Funds Management, currently serves as the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">sub-adviser to the Fund. The principal business address of Allspring Investments is </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">525 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94105.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Computershare Fund Services is the Fund&#8217;s transfer agent and is located at P.O. Box </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">43010, Providence, Rhode Island 02940-3010.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">KPMG LLP (&#8220;KPMG&#8221;), Two Financial Center, 60 South Street, Boston, Massachusetts </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">02111, has been approved by the Trustees of the Fund as the independent registered </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">public accounting firm of the Fund for the current fiscal year ending </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">October 31, 2021.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Audit Committee of the Board unanimously recommended the selection of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">KPMG, and the Board unanimously approved such selection, at meetings held on </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">November 11, 2021.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Fund&#8217;s Audit Committee has established and adopted policies and procedures </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">whereby the Audit Committee Chairman is authorized to pre-approve: (1) audit </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">services to the Fund; (2) non-audit tax or compliance consulting or training services </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">provided to the Fund by its independent registered accounting firm if the fees for any </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">particular engagement are not anticipated to exceed a specified dollar amount; and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">(3) non-audit tax or compliance consulting or training services provided by the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">independent registered public accounting firm to the Fund&#8217;s investment adviser and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">its adviser affiliates (where pre-approval is required because the engagement relates </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">directly to the operations and financial reporting of the Fund) if the fee for any </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">particular engagement is not anticipated to exceed a specified dollar amount. For any </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">pre-approval sought from the Chairman, the adviser shall prepare a brief description </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">of the proposed services. If the Chairman approves such service, he or she shall sign </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the statement prepared by the adviser, and such written statement shall be presented </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">to the full Audit Committee at its next regularly scheduled meeting.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">A representative of KPMG, if requested in advance by any Shareholder, will be present </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">via telephone at the Meeting to respond to appropriate questions from Shareholders </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">and will have an opportunity to make a statement if he or she chooses to do so. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Absent such a Shareholder request, it is not expected that such representative will be </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">present at the Meeting.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">In approving the selection of KPMG for the Fund, the Audit Committee considered, in </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">addition to other practices and requirements relating to the selection of the Fund&#8217;s </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">independent registered public accounting firm, whether any services performed by </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">KPMG for the Fund and the investment adviser and for certain related parties for </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">which KPMG received non-audit fees are compatible with maintaining the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">independence of KPMG as the Fund&#8217;s independent registered public accounting firm.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">On </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">December 16, 2021, the Audit Committee reviewed and discussed with </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">management the Fund&#8217;s audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">October 31, 2021. The Audit Committee has reviewed and discussed with KPMG the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">matters required to be discussed by Statements on Auditing Standards, No. 114, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Communication with Audit Committees. The Audit Committee has received the </font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0 pt;">Allspring Global Dividend Opportunity Fund Proxy Statement</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0 pt;">&#160;|&#160;</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0.8828722778104767%;"><b>20</b></font>&#160;</p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">written disclosures and the letter from KPMG required by the Public Company </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Accounting Oversight Board regarding certain communications, and has discussed </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">with KPMG its independence. Based on these reviews and discussions, the Audit </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Committee recommended to the Board that the audited financial statements be </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">included in the annual report to Shareholders for the previous fiscal year for filing </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">with the SEC.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The following table presents fees billed for professional audit services rendered by </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">KPMG for the audit of the Fund&#8217;s annual financial statements for the past two fiscal </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">years and for fees billed for other services rendered by KPMG to the Fund. There were </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">no fees paid to KPMG during the fiscal years where the de minimis exception was </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">used.</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"></p>
               </td>
               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="background-color:#F1F1F1;;border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>2021</b></font></p>
               </td>
               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="background-color:#F1F1F1;;border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;"><b>2020</b></font></p>
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               <td align="left" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="background-color:#F1F1F1;;border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Audit fees</font></font></p>
               </td>
               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$48,970</font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$56,650</font></p>
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               <td align="left" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="background-color:#F1F1F1;;border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Audit-related fees</font></font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$0</font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$0</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Tax fees</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:6pt;"><sup>1</sup></font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$5,850</font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$5,800</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Non-audit fees</font></font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$0</font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.9pt solid #000000;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$0</font></p>
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               <td align="left" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="background-color:#F1F1F1;;vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">All other fees</font></font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$0</font></p>
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               <td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="vertical-align:bottom">
                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:9;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">$0</font></p>
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               <td style="padding-bottom:0pt;padding-top:-9.02pt;padding-left:2pt;padding-right:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Tax fees consist of fees for tax compliance, tax advice, tax planning and excise tax.</font></td>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:8;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Board has adopted a written charter for the Audit Committee which is attached to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">this proxy statement as Exhibit B. The Audit Committee reviews the charter at least </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">annually and may recommend changes to the Board.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:10;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><a name="chapter_2-sect1_5_7933"></a><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.424pt;"><b>SIMULTANEOUS MEETINGS</b></font><hr color="#000000" width="100%" align="left" size="0.4"></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">As of the date of this proxy statement, neither the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Fund&#8217;s officers nor Allspring Funds </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Management are aware of any other business to come before the Meeting other than </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">as set forth in the Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders. If any other business is </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">properly brought before the Meeting or any adjournment thereof, the persons named </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">as proxies in the enclosed proxy card will vote in accordance with the views of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">management of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Fund.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:10;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><a name="chapter_2-sect1_6_7933"></a><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.424pt;"><b>REQUIRED VOTE FOR EACH PROPOSAL</b></font><hr color="#000000" width="100%" align="left" size="0.4"></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The vote of a plurality of the votes cast by Shareholders present in person or </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">represented by proxy at the Meeting is required for the election of trustees.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:10;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><a name="chapter_2-sect1_7_7933"></a><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.424pt;"><b>Notice</b></font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">A Certificate of Trust in respect of the Fund is on file with the Secretary of the State of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Delaware. As provided in the Declaration, the obligations of any instrument made or </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">issued by any Trustee or Trustees or by any officer or officers of the Fund are not </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">binding upon any of them or the Shareholders individually, but are binding only upon </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the assets and property of the Fund.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0pt;"><b>21</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0.8828722778104767%;"><b>&#160;|&#160;</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0 pt;">Allspring Global Dividend Opportunity Fund Proxy Statement</font>&#160;</p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:10;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><a name="chapter_2-sect1_8_7933"></a><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.424pt;"><b>Shareholder Proposals</b></font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Proposals intended to be presented by a Shareholder at the annual meeting of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Shareholders to be held in 2023 must be received by the Fund&#8217;s Secretary at the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Fund&#8217;s principal executive office by September 1, 2022 in order to be considered for </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">inclusion in the Fund&#8217;s proxy statement and proxy card relating to that meeting </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act. If a Shareholder wishes to present a </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">proposal at the annual meeting of Shareholders to be held in 2023 without having the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">proposal included in the Fund&#8217;s proxy statement, including a proposal to nominate </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">any persons for election to the Board, such proposal must be delivered to the Fund&#8217;s </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Secretary at the Fund&#8217;s principal executive office not earlier than the close of business </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">on September 1, 2022 and not later than the close of business on October 3, 2022. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Timely receipt or delivery of a proposal does not necessarily mean that such proposal </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">will be included in the Fund&#8217;s proxy statement or presented at the meeting, given that </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">such inclusion and presentation are subject to various conditions and requirements, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">including those specified by applicable law and by the Fund&#8217;s governing documents. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Chair of the meeting may refuse to acknowledge a nomination or other proposal </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">by a Shareholder that is not made in the manner described above.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE FUND UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS THAT YOU </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">VOTE FOR THE ELECTION OF EACH NOMINEE AS A TRUSTEE.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">R. Matthew Prasse</font><br><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Secretary</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">December 31, 2021</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0 pt;">Allspring Global Dividend Opportunity Fund Proxy Statement</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0 pt;">&#160;|&#160;</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0.8828722778104767%;"><b>22</b></font>&#160;</p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:9;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><a name="chapter_2-sect1_9_7933"></a><font style="text-transform:uppercase;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;"><b>INSTRUCTIONS FOR EXECUTING PROXY CARD</b></font></font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:6;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The following general rules for signing proxy cards may be of assistance to you and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">may help to avoid the time and expense involved in validating your vote if you fail to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">sign your proxy card properly.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">1. INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS: Sign your name exactly as it appears in the Registration on </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the proxy card.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">2. JOINT ACCOUNTS: Either party may sign, but the name of the party signing should </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">conform exactly to a name shown in the Registration on the proxy card. </font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">3. ALL OTHER ACCOUNTS: The capacity of the individual signing the proxy card should </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">be indicated unless it is reflected in the form of Registration. For example:</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:6pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">(1) ABC Corp.</font></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:6pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">(1) ABC Trust</font></font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">VOTE BY TELEPHONE:</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">1. Read the proxy statement and have your proxy card at hand.</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">2. Call the toll-free number on your proxy card.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">VOTE BY INTERNET:</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">1. Read the proxy statement and have your proxy card at hand.</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">2. Go to the website indicated on your proxy card and follow the voting instructions.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The telephone and Internet voting procedures are designed to authenticate </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Shareholder identities, to allow Shareholders to give their voting instructions, and to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">confirm that Shareholders&#8217; instructions have been recorded properly. Please note that, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">although there is no charge to you for voting by telephone or Internet, there may be </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">costs associated with electronic access, such as usage charges from telephone </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">companies and Internet service providers, that must be borne by the Shareholders.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0pt;"><b>23</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0.8828722778104767%;"><b>&#160;|&#160;</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0 pt;">Allspring Global Dividend Opportunity Fund Proxy Statement</font>&#160;</p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Voting by telephone or Internet is generally available 24 hours a day. Do not mail the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">proxy card if you are voting by telephone or Internet. If you have any questions about </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">voting, please call Computershare Fund Services, our proxy solicitor, at </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">866-209-5784 </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">(toll free).</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:6;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><b><u style="0.5 #000000 solid baseline 0 1 0">Nominating and Governance Committee Membership and Chair</u></b></font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Nominating and Governance Committee of each Trust (the &#8220;Committee&#8221;) shall be </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">composed only of Trustees who are not &#8220;interested persons&#8221; of the Trusts, or of any </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">investment adviser or principal underwriter of the Trusts or any series thereof (a </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">&#8220;Fund&#8221;), as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940 (&#8220;Independent Trustees&#8221;). </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The full Boards shall designate the members of the Committee, after due </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">consideration of nominations, if any, from the Committee, and shall designate the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Chair.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">(vi) overall diversity of the Board&#8217;s composition and how the candidate&#8217;s skills, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">experiences and attributes would contribute to the mix of relevant skills and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">experience on the Board.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">b. The Committee will consider and evaluate nominee candidates properly submitted </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">by shareholders on the same basis as it considers and evaluates candidates </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">recommended by other sources. Appendix A to this Charter, as it may be amended </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">from time to time by the Committee, sets forth procedures that must be followed by </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">shareholders to submit properly a candidate for nomination by the Committee. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Shareholder recommendations not properly submitted in accordance with the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">requirements of Appendix A will not be considered for nomination by the Committee.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">a. As a threshold matter, the background of a candidate to serve as an Independent </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Trustee must be reviewed to confirm that the person meets or, on the effective date of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">his or her appointment or election will meet, the technical requirements under the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">1940 Act for being an Independent Trustee, and, with respect to Independent Trustee </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">candidates for the Board of each Closed-End Fund, that such person satisfies or, on </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the effective date of his or her appointment or election will satisfy, applicable </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">independence requirements of the listing standards of securities exchanges on which </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">shares of such Closed-End Fund are traded.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">from the Board in the event that his or her firm subsequently undertakes such a role </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">for any registered investment company outside of the Allspring Funds family; </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">provided, that if a candidate is an officer, partner, or employee of, or serves in a similar </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">capacity for, a broker-dealer, nothing herein is intended to confer on such candidate </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">eligibility for nomination as an Independent Trustee if he or she would be an </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">&#8220;interested person&#8221; of the Funds pursuant to the 1940 Act by virtue of the activities of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">such broker-dealer.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">ii. No candidate shall be nominated for membership on the Board if that candidate </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">serves on the board of a firm that serves as an investment adviser, sub-adviser or </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">principal underwriter of any registered investment company outside of the Allspring </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Funds family, unless an exception from this policy is expressly approved by the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Committee. Similarly, if a candidate serves on the board of a registered investment </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">adviser or registered broker-dealer, but that firm currently does not serve as an </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">investment adviser, sub-adviser, or principal underwriter of any such registered </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">investment company, such candidate shall be nominated only upon the express </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">agreement that he or she would, unless an exception from this policy is expressly </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">approved by the Committee, resign from the Board in the event that his or her firm </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">subsequently undertakes such a role for any registered investment company outside </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">of the Allspring Funds family. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a candidate is a </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">director of a broker-dealer, nothing herein is intended to confer on such candidate </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">eligibility for nomination as an Independent Trustee if he or she would be an </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">&#8220;interested person&#8221; of the Funds pursuant to the 1940 Act by virtue of the activities of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">such broker-dealer.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">3. The Committee shall review the composition of the Board when it deems it </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">appropriate to do so to determine whether it may be appropriate to recommend </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">adding individuals with backgrounds or skill sets that differ from those of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">individuals already on the Board and/or recommend expanding or contracting the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">size of the Board.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">1. The Committee shall propose nominations for membership on all committees and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">shall review committee assignments when it deems it appropriate to do so.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">2. The Committee shall review as necessary the responsibilities of any committees of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the Board, whether there is a continuing need for each committee, whether there is a </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">need for additional committees of the Board, and whether committees should be </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">combined or reorganized. The Committee shall make recommendations for any such </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">action to the Board. With respect to any committee of the Board of a Closed-End Fund, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the powers, functions, size, membership and other aspects of the committee shall </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">conform with any applicable requirements of the By-Laws of such Closed-end Fund.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0pt;"><b>A-3</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0.8828722778104767%;"><b>&#160;|&#160;</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:7.02pt;margin-left:0 pt;">Allspring Global Dividend Opportunity Fund Proxy Statement</font>&#160;</p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">a. In addition to any powers and duties specified in this Charter, the Chair of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Committee&#8217;s role is to preside at all meetings of the Committee and to act as a liaison </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">with respect to governance-related matters with service providers, officers, attorneys, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">and other Committee members generally between meetings.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">b. The Chair of the Committee shall be entitled to receive an additional annual fee in </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">such amount, and payable in such frequency and manner, determined from time to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">time by the Board, for the additional work and time devoted by the Chair of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Committee.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">2. Except for any duties specified herein or pursuant to a Trust&#8217;s charter document, the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">designation of Chair of the Committee does not impose on such Trustee any duties, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">obligations or liability that are greater than the duties, obligations or liability imposed </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">on such person as a member of the Board generally.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">1. The Committee shall periodically review and recommend any appropriate changes </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">to trustee compensation to the Board.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><b><u style="0.5 #000000 solid baseline 0 1 0">Fund Share Ownership</u></b></font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">1. The Committee shall periodically review and recommend any appropriate changes </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">in respect of policies regarding share ownership in Allspring Funds by Trustees.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">1. The Committee shall periodically review the Board leadership structure and shall </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">recommend any appropriate leadership structure changes to the Board.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">1. The Committee may from time-to-time propose nominations of one or more </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">individuals to serve as members of an &#8220;advisory board,&#8221; as such term is defined in </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Section 2(a)(1) of the 1940 Act (&#8220;Advisory Trustees&#8221;). An individual shall be eligible to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">serve as an Advisory Trustee only if that individual meets the requirements to be an </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Independent Trustee and does not otherwise serve the Trusts in any other capacity. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Any Advisory Trustee shall serve at the pleasure of the Board and may be removed, at </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">any time, with or without cause, by the Board. An Advisory Trustee may be nominated </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">and appointed or elected as a Trustee, at which time he or she shall cease to be </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Advisory Trustee. Any Advisory Trustee may resign at any time.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">1. The Committee shall review this Charter at least annually and recommend changes, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">if any, to the Board.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">2. The Committee shall periodically review and address matters relating to the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">engagement and independence of legal counsel employed by the Independent </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Trustees and shall recommend any appropriate actions to the Board.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">3. The Committee shall have the resources and authority to discharge its </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">responsibilities, including authority to retain special counsel and other experts or </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">consultants, advisers or employees at the expense of the appropriate Fund(s).</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">4. In consultation with independent legal counsel to the Independent Trustees, the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Committee shall consider the processes to be undertaken by the Board in connection </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">with the annual assessment of the performance of the Board and the committees of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">the Board pursuant to rule 0-1(a)(7)(v) under the 1940 Act and under any applicable </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">listing requirements.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">5. The Committee shall set forth and periodically review governance principles for the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Board and its committees and shall recommend changes, if any, to the Board. Those </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">principles have been outlined in a separate document (Statement of Governance </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Principles).</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">6. The actions taken at meetings of the Committee shall be recorded in the minutes of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">such meetings. Meetings of the Committees may be conducted in person, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">telephonically, or via video-conference.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">7. If the Committee&#8217;s membership does not include all of the Trustees, the Committee </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">will report on actions taken at its meetings to the Board.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">8. The Committee shall have such further responsibilities as are given to it from time </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">to time by the Board.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Date of most recent Charter amendment: December 16, 2021</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><b>Procedures for Shareholders to Submit Nominee Candidates</b></font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">A shareholder of any series of the Trust must follow the following procedures in order </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">to submit properly a nominee candidate recommendation for the Committee&#8217;s </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">consideration.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The shareholder must submit any nominee candidate recommendation (a </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">&#8220;Shareholder Recommendation&#8221;) in writing to the Trust, to the attention of the Trust&#8217;s </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Secretary, at the address of the principal executive offices of the Trust.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">The Shareholder Recommendation must include: (i) a statement in writing setting </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">forth (A) the name, age, date of birth, business address, residence address and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">nationality of the person recommended by the shareholder (the &#8220;candidate&#8221;); (B) the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">series (and, if applicable, class) and number of all shares of the Trust owned of record </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">or beneficially by the candidate, as reported to such shareholder by the candidate; (C) </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">any other information regarding the candidate called for with respect to director </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">nominees by paragraphs (a), (d), (e) and (f) of Item 401 of Regulation S-K or paragraph </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">(b) of Item 22 of Rule 14a-101 (Schedule 14A) under the Securities Exchange Act of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">1934, as amended (the &#8220;Exchange Act&#8221;), adopted by the Securities and Exchange </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Commission (or the corresponding provisions of any regulation or rule subsequently </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor agency </font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">applicable to the Trust); (D) any other information regarding the candidate that would </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">be required to be disclosed if the candidate were a nominee in a proxy statement or </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">other filing required to be made in connection with solicitation of proxies for election </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">of directors pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">promulgated thereunder; and (E) whether the recommending shareholder believes </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">that the candidate is or will be an &#8220;interested person&#8221; of the Trust (as defined in the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">1940 Act) and information regarding the candidate that will be sufficient for the Trust </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">to make such determination; (ii) the written and signed consent of the candidate to </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">be named as a nominee and to serve as a Trustee if elected; (iii) the recommending </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">shareholder&#8217;s name as it appears on the Trust&#8217;s books; (iv) the series (and, if applicable, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">class) and number of all shares of the Trust owned beneficially and of record by the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">recommending shareholder; and (v) a description of all arrangements or </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">understandings between the recommending shareholder and the candidate and any </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">other person or persons (including their names) pursuant to which the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">recommendation is being made by the recommending shareholder. In addition, the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Committee may require the candidate to interview in person and furnish such other </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">information as it may reasonably require or deem necessary to determine the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">eligibility of such candidate to serve as a Trustee of the Trust. With respect to each </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Closed-End Fund, the Shareholder Recommendation also must comply with any </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">timing or additional requirements applicable to shareholder nominations, as set forth </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">in the By-Laws of such Closed-end Fund. In the event of any conflict or inconsistency </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">with respect to the requirements applicable to a Shareholder Recommendation as </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">between those established in these procedures and those in the By-Laws of a </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Closed-End Fund, the requirements of the By-Laws of such Closed-End Fund shall </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">control.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:6;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">1. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><u style="0.5 #000000 solid baseline 0 1 0">Composition, Chair and Audit Committee Financial Expert</u></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">. The Audit Committees </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">(&#8220;Committees&#8221;) of the Boards of Trustees (the &#8220;Boards&#8221;) of Allspring Funds Trust, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Allspring Variable Trust, and Allspring Master Trust (collectively, the &#8220;Open-End </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Trusts&#8221;), Allspring Global Dividend Opportunity Fund (&#8220;EOD&#8221;), Allspring Income </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Opportunities Fund (&#8220;EAD&#8221;), Allspring Multi-Sector Income Fund (&#8220;ERC&#8221;), and Allspring </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Utilities and High Income Fund (&#8220;ERH&#8221;) (collectively, the &#8220;Closed-End Funds&#8221; and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">together, with the Open-End Trusts, the &#8220;Trusts&#8221;) shall be composed entirely of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Trustees who are not &#8220;interested persons&#8221; of the Trusts or of any series thereof, or of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">any investment adviser or principal underwriter, as defined in the Investment </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Company Act of 1940 (&#8220;Independent Trustees&#8221;). The Committees of the Closed-End </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Funds (the &#8220;Closed-End Fund Committees&#8221;) shall have at least three members who are </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">&#8220;independent&#8221; as that term is interpreted under Rule 10A-3 under the Securities </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Exchange Act of 1934 and under the listing standards of each exchange on which </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">shares of the Closed-End Funds are traded, except as otherwise set forth by statute, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">rule, or listing standard. The full Boards shall designate the members of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Committees, after due consideration of nominations, if any, from the Governance </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Committee, and shall designate the Chair. Except for any duties specified herein or </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">pursuant to a Trust&#8217;s charter document, the designation of Chair of the Audit </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Committee does not impose on such Trustee any duties, obligations or liability that </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">are greater than the duties, obligations or liability imposed on such person as a </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">member of the Committees and the Boards in the absence of such designation.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">7. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"><u style="0.5 #000000 solid baseline 0 1 0">Meetings.</u></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;"> The Committees shall meet at least twice annually, and are empowered </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">to hold special meetings as circumstances require. The Committees shall record </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">minutes of their meetings and shall invite Trustees who are not members of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Committees, Management, counsel and representatives of service providers to attend </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">meetings and provide information as the Committees, in their sole discretion, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">consider appropriate. The Committees shall periodically meet separately in executive </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">session with the Auditors. Meetings of the Committees may be conducted in person, </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">telephonically, or via video-conference.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Nothing in this Charter shall be interpreted as diminishing or derogating the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">responsibilities of the Boards.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:5;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.52pt;">Date of most recent Charter Amendment: December 16, 2021</font></p>
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               <td style="padding-bottom:0pt;padding-top:-9.02pt;padding-left:2pt;padding-right:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">As of August 2021, shares of EAD, ERC and ERH were listed on the NYSE American. Although the NYSE </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">American Company Guide exempts closed-end funds from certain listing requirements, this Charter </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">has been drafted according to the view expressed by regulators that they may, in fact, apply some of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">those requirements to closed-end funds.</font></td>
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               <td style="padding-bottom:0pt;padding-top:-9.02pt;padding-left:2pt;padding-right:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">One is &#8220;financially sophisticated&#8221; if that individual qualifies as an &#8220;audit committee financial expert&#8221; </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">under Item 3 of Form N-CSR.</font></td>
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               <td style="padding-bottom:0pt;padding-top:-9.02pt;padding-left:2pt;padding-right:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">As of August 2021, shares of EOD were listed on the NYSE.</font></td>
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               <td style="padding-bottom:0pt;padding-top:-9.02pt;padding-left:2pt;padding-right:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">&#8220;Financial literacy&#8221; is generally interpreted to signify the ability to read and understand fundamental </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">financial statements, including a company&#8217;s balance sheet, income statement and cash flow </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">statement.</font></td>
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               <td style="padding-bottom:0pt;padding-top:-9.02pt;padding-left:2pt;padding-right:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">One has &#8220;accounting or related financial expertise&#8221; if that individual qualifies as an &#8220;audit committee </font></td>
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               <td style="padding-bottom:0pt;padding-top:0pt;padding-left:2pt;padding-right:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">financial expert&#8221; under the Item 407(d)(5)(ii) of Regulation S-K standard, which is identical to that of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Item 3 of Form N-CSR.</font></td>
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               <td style="padding-bottom:0pt;padding-top:-9.02pt;padding-left:2pt;padding-right:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">The NYSE Closed-End Fund Committee may evaluate the lead partner of the independent auditor </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">team.</font></td>
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               <td style="padding-bottom:0pt;padding-top:-9.02pt;padding-left:2pt;padding-right:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">The NYSE Closed-End Fund Committee may consider and discuss with the Auditors any material </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">issues on which the national office of the Auditors was consulted by the Closed-End Fund&#8217;s audit </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">team.</font></td>
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               <td style="padding-bottom:0pt;padding-top:-9.02pt;padding-left:2pt;padding-right:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Service on multiple boards in the same fund complex is counted as service on one board for the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">purposes of this requirement.</font></td>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Not to exceed $3,500 per fund</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Tax assistance and advice regarding tax </font></font><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">consequences of new investment products or </font></font><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">proposed changes to existing products.</font></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Not to exceed $15,000</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#F1F1F1;padding-left:5.7pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Tax assistance and advice regarding statutory, </font></font><font style="padding-left:0pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">regulatory or administrative developments.</font></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Not to exceed $15,000</font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:9pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8.02pt;">Not to exceed $30,000</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:6;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;"><b>VOTE ON THE INTERNET</b></font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">Log on to:</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">www.proxy-direct.com</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">or scan the QR code</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">Follow the on-screen instructions</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;"><i>Available 24 hours</i></font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:6;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;"><b>VOTE BY PHONE</b></font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">Call 1-800-337-3503</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">Follow the recorded instructions</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;"><i>available 24 hours</i></font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:6;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;"><b>VOTE BY MAIL</b></font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">Vote, sign and date this Proxy Card</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">and return in the postage-paid</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">envelope</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:6;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;"><b>VOTE IN PERSON</b></font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">Attend Shareholder Meeting</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">525 Market Street, 12th Floor</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">San Francisco, CA 94105</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">on </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">February 7, 2022</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:6;padding-bottom:0;align:center;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;"><b>Please detach at perforation before mailing.</b></font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:6;padding-bottom:0;align:center;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;"><b>ALLSPRING GLOBAL DIVIDEND OPPORTUNITY FUND</b></font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;"><b>COMMON SHARES</b></font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;"><b>PROXY FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS TO BE HELD ON </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;"><b>FEBRUARY 7, 2022</b></font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:6;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;"><b>This Proxy is solicited on behalf of the Board of Trustees of </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;"><b>Allspring Global Dividend Opportunity Fund (the </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;"><b>&#8220;Fund&#8221;) for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders.</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;"> The undersigned, revoking any previously executed proxies, hereby </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">appoints R. Matthew Prasse, Maureen E. Towle and Johanne F. Castro, or each of them acting individually, as proxies of the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">undersigned, each with full power of substitution, to represent and vote all of the common shares of the Fund that the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">undersigned would be entitled to vote at the 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders of the Fund to be held at the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">principal office of the Fund, 525 Market Street, 12th Floor, San Francisco, California 94105 on </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">February 7, 2022, at </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">10:00 </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">a.m., Pacific time, and at any and all adjournments thereof.</font></p>
         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:6;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">Receipt of the Notice of Meeting and the accompanying Proxy Statement, which describes the matters to be considered </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">and voted on, is hereby acknowledged.</font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:6;padding-bottom:0;align:center;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">EOD_32467_120821</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;"><b>UNLESS VOTING BY TELEPHONE OR INTERNET, PLEASE SIGN, DATE ON THE REVERSE SIDE AND MAIL THIS PROXY </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;"><b>CARD PROMPTLY USING THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE.</b></font></p>
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         <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:6;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;"><b>If any other matters about which the Fund did not have timely notice properly come before the meeting, </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;"><b>authorization is given to the proxy holders to vote in accordance with the views of management of the Fund.</b></font></p>
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                  <p style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9.02pt;">01. Timothy J. Penny          02. James G. Polisson          03. Pamela Wheelock</font></p>
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