CLM Cornerstone Strategic Investment Fund Inc

 

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SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS - SEPTEMBER 30, 2023 (Unaudited)

 

Description		No. of Shares				Value
EQUITY SECURITIES - 99.30%
CLOSED-END FUNDS - 12.06%
CONVERTIBLE SECURITY FUNDS - 0.30%
Bancroft Fund Ltd.			22,369			$	352,759
Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund Ltd.			49,175				395,859
Virtus Convertible & Income Fund			445,710				1,386,159
Virtus Convertible & Income Fund II			300,274				828,756
Virtus Diversified Income & Convertible Fund			53,950				1,006,707
Virtus Equity & Convertible Income Fund			26,260				522,311
							4,492,551
DEVELOPED MARKET - 0.02%
Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund, Inc.			44,232				314,490
DIVERSIFIED EQUITY - 3.04%
Adams Diversified Equity Fund, Inc.			815,430				13,568,754
Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund			254,988				5,400,646
Gabelli Dividend & Income Trust (The)			556,724				10,822,715
General American Investors Company, Inc.			183,718				7,558,159
Liberty All-Star® Growth Fund, Inc.			332,635				1,643,217
Royce Value Trust, Inc.			345,616				4,448,078
Tri-Continental Corporation			54,200				1,441,178
							44,882,747
GLOBAL - 1.00%
abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund			25,250				218,665
abrdn Total Dynamic Dividend Fund			66,781				504,864
Clough Global Dividend and Income Fund			104,787				520,791
Clough Global Equity Fund			165,742				908,267
Clough Global Opportunities Fund			257,384				1,140,211
Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Income Fund			365,575				5,622,544
Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Opportunities Fund			144,869				3,092,953
Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust (The)			14,769				153,007

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Description		No. of Shares				Value
GLOBAL - 1.00% (Continued)
GDL Fund (The)			97,245			$	753,649
John Hancock Tax-Advantaged Global Shareholder Yield Fund			39,551				174,024
Lazard Global Total Return and Income Fund, Inc.			99,013				1,370,340
Miller/Howard High Income Equity Fund			13,883				137,719
Royce Global Value Trust, Inc.			20,036				174,524
							14,771,558
INCOME & PREFERRED STOCK - 0.22%
Calamos Long/Short Equity & Dynamic Income Trust			109,557				1,620,348
LMP Capital and Income Fund Inc.			134,066				1,675,825
							3,296,173
NATURAL RESOURCES - 0.54%
Adams Natural Resources Fund, Inc.			285,188				6,593,546
First Trust Energy Income and Growth Fund			58,640				771,116
NXG NextGen Infrastructure Income Fund			11,634				436,275
Tortoise Energy Independence Fund, Inc.			3,192				101,091
							7,902,028
OPTION ARBITRAGE/OPTIONS STRATEGIES - 3.13%
BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust			353,550				2,690,516
BlackRock Enhanced Global Dividend Trust			314,453				2,965,292
BlackRock Enhanced International Dividend Trust			51,687				257,918
Eaton Vance Enhanced Equity Income Fund			14,326				227,067
Eaton Vance Enhanced Equity Income Fund II			384,048				6,597,945
Eaton Vance Risk-Managed Diversified Equity Income Fund			221,793				1,703,370
Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Buy-Write Income Fund			183,005				2,307,693
Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Buy-Write Opportunities Fund			574,849				6,880,942
Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Diversified Equity Income Fund			104,600				1,207,084
Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund			481,296				3,677,101
Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Diversified Equity Income Fund			781,503				5,759,677
Nuveen Core Equity Alpha Fund			7,836				97,401
Nuveen Dow 30SM Dynamic Overwrite Fund			225,994				3,096,118

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Description		No. of Shares				Value
OPTION ARBITRAGE/OPTIONS STRATEGIES - 3.13% (Continued)
Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund			114,775			$	2,578,994
Nuveen S&P 500 Buy-Write Income Fund			88,575				1,121,360
Nuveen S&P 500 Dynamic Overwrite Fund			67,100				994,422
Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund			316,715				3,588,380
Voya Global Equity Dividend and Premium Opportunity Fund			119,115				583,664
							46,334,944
REAL ESTATE - 0.54%
Cohen & Steers Quality Income Realty Fund, Inc.			439,946				4,452,253
Cohen & Steers Real Estate Opportunities and Income Fund			79,569				1,038,375
Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund, Inc.			78,477				822,439
Neuberger Berman Real Estate Securities Income Fund Inc.			240,244				670,281
Nuveen Real Estate Income Fund			150,725				1,009,858
							7,993,206
SECTOR EQUITY - 2.83%
BlackRock Health Sciences Term Trust			566,231				8,159,389
BlackRock Innovation & Growth Trust			1,848,502				12,865,574
Gabelli Healthcare & WellnessRx Trust (The)			166,170				1,425,739
GAMCO Natural Resources, Gold & Income Trust			55,532				274,328
Neuberger Berman Next Generation Connectivity Fund Inc.			644,075				6,711,262
Nuveen Real Asset Income and Growth Fund			276,376				2,935,113
Tekla Healthcare Investors			270,948				4,213,241
Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund			222,883				3,784,553
Tekla Life Sciences Investors			116,432				1,451,907
							41,821,106
UTILITY - 0.44%
abrdn Global Infrastructure Income Fund			123,196				1,983,456
Allspring Utilities and High Income Fund			38,357				335,240
BlackRock Utilities, Infrastructure & Power Opportunities Trust			33,823				670,710
Cohen & Steers Infrastructure Fund Inc.			116,481				2,280,698
Duff & Phelps Utility and Infrastructure Fund Inc.			133,665				1,152,192

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Description		No. of Shares				Value
UTILITY - 0.44% (Continued)
Macquarie/First Trust Global Infrastructure/Utilities Dividend & Income Fund			20,754			$	144,033
							6,566,329
TOTAL CLOSED-END FUNDS							178,375,132
COMMUNICATION SERVICES - 8.12%
Alphabet Inc. - Class C *			478,300				63,063,855
Comcast Corporation - Class A			152,200				6,748,548
Meta Platforms, Inc. - Class A *			89,500				26,868,795
Netflix, Inc. *			17,600				6,645,760
T-Mobile US, Inc. *			50,000				7,002,500
Verizon Communications Inc.			122,000				3,954,020
Walt Disney Company (The) *			71,300				5,778,865
							120,062,343
CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY - 8.90%
Amazon.com, Inc. *			411,000				52,246,320
AutoZone, Inc. *			700				1,777,993
Booking Holdings Inc. *			1,700				5,242,715
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. *			1,100				2,015,013
eBay Inc.			38,000				1,675,420
General Motors Company			51,000				1,681,470
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.			15,200				2,282,736
Home Depot, Inc. (The)			29,000				8,762,640
Lowe's Companies, Inc.			25,600				5,320,704
McDonald's Corporation			21,000				5,532,240
NIKE, Inc. - Class B			44,100				4,216,842
O'Reilly Automotive, Inc. *			3,000				2,726,580
Ross Stores, Inc.			18,800				2,123,460
Starbucks Corporation			33,500				3,057,545
Tesla, Inc. *			115,000				28,775,300
TJX Companies, Inc. (The)			46,500				4,132,920
							131,569,898
CONSUMER STAPLES - 6.40%
Altria Group, Inc.			42,900				1,803,945
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company			11,400				859,788

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SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS - SEPTEMBER 30, 2023 (Unaudited) (Continued)

 

Description		No. of Shares				Value
CONSUMER STAPLES - 6.40% (Continued)
Coca-Cola Company (The)			265,000			$	14,834,700
Colgate-Palmolive Company			23,531				1,673,289
Constellation Brands, Inc. - Class A			3,800				955,054
Costco Wholesale Corporation			29,900				16,892,304
Dollar General Corporation			10,100				1,068,580
General Mills, Inc.			12,400				793,476
Hershey Company (The)			6,100				1,220,488
Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.			29,200				921,844
Kimberly-Clark Corporation			7,200				870,120
Kraft Heinz Company (The)			19,900				669,436
Mondelēz International, Inc. - Class A			38,600				2,678,840
Monster Beverage Corporation *			60,000				3,177,000
PepsiCo, Inc.			56,600				9,590,304
Philip Morris International Inc.			64,900				6,008,442
Procter & Gamble Company (The)			84,500				12,325,170
Target Corporation			12,400				1,371,068
Walmart Inc.			106,000				16,952,580
							94,666,428
ENERGY - 3.31%
Chevron Corporation			57,600				9,712,512
ConocoPhillips			40,000				4,792,000
Devon Energy Corporation			50,000				2,385,000
EOG Resources, Inc.			3,100				392,956
Exxon Mobil Corporation			175,100				20,588,258
Halliburton Company			4,700				190,350
Hess Corporation			1,600				244,800
Kinder Morgan, Inc. - Class P			160,000				2,652,800
Marathon Petroleum Corporation			2,200				332,948
Occidental Petroleum Corporation			50,900				3,302,392
Phillips 66			2,400				288,360
Pioneer Natural Resources Company			13,800				3,167,790
Schlumberger Limited			7,300				425,590
Valero Energy Corporation			1,800				255,078
Williams Companies, Inc. (The)			6,200				208,878
							48,939,712

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Description		No. of Shares				Value
EXCHANGE-TRADED FUNDS - 4.26%
Energy Select Sector SPDR® Fund (The)			61,200			$	5,531,868
Invesco QQQ TrustSM, Series 1			73,200				26,225,364
Technology Select Sector SPDR® Fund (The)			141,500				23,196,095
Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF			19,377				8,039,517
							62,992,844
FINANCIALS - 11.61%
Aflac Incorporated			24,100				1,849,675
American Express Company			29,700				4,430,943
American International Group, Inc.			14,600				884,760
Aon plc - Class A			12,400				4,020,328
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.			13,000				2,963,090
Bank of America Corporation			365,200				9,999,176
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. - Class B *			65,300				22,874,590
BlackRock, Inc.			6,000				3,878,940
Capital One Financial Corporation			8,300				805,515
Charles Schwab Corporation (The)			92,500				5,078,250
Chubb Limited			16,600				3,455,788
Citigroup Inc.			78,800				3,241,044
CME Group Inc.			14,400				2,883,168
Fiserv, Inc. *			20,800				2,349,568
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The)			13,500				4,368,195
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.			22,300				2,453,446
JPMorgan Chase & Co.			137,800				19,983,756
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.			19,700				3,748,910
Mastercard Incorporated - Class A			40,400				15,994,764
MetLife, Inc.			30,700				1,931,337
Moody's Corporation			10,800				3,414,636
Morgan Stanley			79,200				6,468,264
MSCI Inc.			5,800				2,975,864
PayPal Holdings, Inc. *			52,700				3,080,842
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.			16,300				2,001,151
Progressive Corporation (The)			32,500				4,527,250
S&P Global Inc.			12,800				4,677,248
Travelers Companies, Inc. (The)			4,800				783,888
Truist Financial Corporation			27,700				792,497
U.S. Bancorp			62,700				2,072,862

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Description		No. of Shares				Value
FINANCIALS - 11.61% (Continued)
Visa, Inc. - Class A			76,200			$	17,526,762
Wells Fargo & Company			149,000				6,088,140
							171,604,647
HEALTH CARE - 11.34%
Abbott Laboratories			53,200				5,152,420
AbbVie Inc.			57,600				8,585,856
Amgen Inc.			16,000				4,300,160
Becton, Dickinson and Company			3,100				801,443
Biogen Inc. *			8,700				2,235,987
Boston Scientific Corporation *			71,000				3,748,800
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company			102,000				5,920,080
Centene Corporation *			5,600				385,728
Cigna Group (The)			14,800				4,233,836
CVS Health Corporation			13,600				949,552
Danaher Corporation			33,800				8,385,780
DexCom, Inc. *			29,300				2,733,690
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation *			6,800				471,104
Elevance Health, Inc.			11,600				5,050,872
Eli Lilly and Company			34,400				18,477,272
Gilead Sciences, Inc.			67,300				5,043,462
HCA Healthcare, Inc.			13,800				3,394,524
Humana Inc.			7,400				3,600,248
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. *			1,000				437,270
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. *			8,000				2,338,320
IQVIA Holdings Inc. *			13,100				2,577,425
Johnson & Johnson			80,900				12,600,175
McKesson Corporation			7,600				3,304,860
Medtronic plc			36,000				2,820,960
Merck & Co., Inc.			107,200				11,036,240
Mettler-Toledo International Inc. *			2,000				2,216,140
Moderna, Inc. *			4,600				475,134
Pfizer Inc.			171,900				5,701,923
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. *			5,600				4,608,576
Stryker Corporation			18,000				4,918,860
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.			11,600				5,871,572
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated			39,300				19,814,667

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Description		No. of Shares				Value
HEALTH CARE - 11.34% (Continued)
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated *			12,900			$	4,485,846
Zoetis, Inc.			5,100				887,298
							167,566,080
INDUSTRIALS - 7.61%
3M Company			10,900				1,020,458
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.			8,100				1,948,698
Boeing Company (The) *			42,500				8,146,400
Carrier Global Corporation			15,600				861,120
Caterpillar Inc.			35,100				9,582,300
Cintas Corporation			2,000				962,020
CSX Corporation			165,100				5,076,825
Deere & Company			17,900				6,755,102
Eaton Corporation plc			7,900				1,684,912
Emerson Electric Co.			39,900				3,853,143
FedEx Corporation			5,000				1,324,600
General Dynamics Corporation			20,000				4,419,400
General Electric Company			31,300				3,460,215
Honeywell International Inc.			49,000				9,052,260
Illinois Tool Works Inc.			19,600				4,514,076
Johnson Controls International plc			13,500				718,335
Lockheed Martin Corporation			17,500				7,156,800
Norfolk Southern Corporation			17,300				3,406,889
Northrop Grumman Corporation			3,000				1,320,570
Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.			2,200				900,108
PACCAR Inc.			35,100				2,984,202
Parker-Hannifin Corporation			2,500				973,800
Paychex, Inc.			7,000				807,310
Raytheon Technologies Corporation			99,300				7,146,621
Republic Services, Inc.			6,200				883,562
Rockwell Automation, Inc.			9,300				2,658,591
Trane Technologies plc - Class A			4,400				892,804
TransDigm Group Incorporated *			3,000				2,529,390
Union Pacific Corporation			48,200				9,814,966
United Parcel Service, Inc. - Class B			21,100				3,288,857
Waste Management, Inc.			28,700				4,375,028
							112,519,362

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SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS - SEPTEMBER 30, 2023 (Unaudited) (Continued)

 

Description		No. of Shares				Value
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - 21.67%
Accenture plc - Class A			19,000			$	5,835,090
Adobe Inc. *			20,200				10,299,980
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. *			46,500				4,781,130
Analog Devices, Inc.			12,000				2,101,080
Apple Inc.			610,700				104,557,947
Applied Materials, Inc.			39,400				5,454,930
Autodesk, Inc. *			8,100				1,675,971
Broadcom Inc.			12,400				10,299,192
Cisco Systems, Inc.			118,000				6,343,680
Intuit Inc.			12,000				6,131,280
Lam Research Corporation			7,200				4,512,744
Microsoft Corporation			285,500				90,146,625
NVIDIA Corporation			101,200				44,020,988
Oracle Corporation			78,000				8,261,760
Roper Technologies, Inc.			6,500				3,147,820
Salesforce, Inc. *			42,200				8,557,316
Texas Instruments Incorporated			26,500				4,213,765
							320,341,298
MATERIALS - 0.96%
Albemarle Corporation			7,300				1,241,292
Corteva, Inc.			35,200				1,800,832
DuPont de Nemours, Inc.			23,700				1,767,783
Freeport-McMoRan Inc.			56,800				2,118,072
Linde plc			19,400				7,223,590
							14,151,569
REAL ESTATE - 0.92%
American Tower Corporation			9,300				1,529,385
AvalonBay Communities, Inc.			5,100				875,874
CBRE Group, Inc. - Class A *			27,000				1,994,220
Equinix, Inc.			3,800				2,759,788
Equity Residential			15,100				886,521
Public Storage			6,400				1,686,528
Realty Income Corporation			27,600				1,378,344
SBA Communications Corporation - Class A			9,000				1,801,530
Ventas, Inc.			15,800				665,654
							13,577,844

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Description		No. of Shares				Value
UTILITIES - 2.14%
American Electric Power Company, Inc.			41,300			$	3,106,586
American Water Works Company, Inc.			19,200				2,377,536
Constellation Energy Corporation			18,333				1,999,764
Dominion Energy, Inc.			33,900				1,514,313
Duke Energy Corporation			30,800				2,718,408
Exelon Corporation			81,700				3,087,443
NextEra Energy, Inc.			81,600				4,674,864
Sempra Energy			53,800				3,660,014
Southern Company (The)			81,800				5,294,096
WEC Energy Group, Inc.			22,000				1,772,100
Xcel Energy Inc.			25,000				1,430,500
							31,635,624
TOTAL EQUITY SECURITIES (cost - $1,330,877,690)							1,468,002,781
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT - 0.63%
MONEY MARKET FUNDS - 0.63%
Fidelity Institutional Money Market Government Portfolio - Class I, 5.23% ^ (cost - $9,343,140)			9,343,140				9,343,140
TOTAL INVESTMENTS - 99.93% (cost - $1,340,220,830)							1,477,345,921
OTHER ASSETS IN EXCESS OF LIABILITIES - 0.07%							1,010,157
NET ASSETS - 100.00%						$	1,478,356,078

 

*	Non-income producing security.
^	The rate shown is the 7-day effective yield as of September 30, 2023.
plc	Public Limited Company.

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