NPORT-EX 2 nb-mlp.htm SOI AND NOTES

Schedule of Investments MLP and Energy Income Fund Inc.^ (Unaudited) February 28, 2023
    
             
             
NUMBER OF SHARES
      
VALUE
  
             
Common Stocks 78.3%
          
             
Capital Markets 1.0%
          
               24,000
CME Group Inc.
      
 $          4,448,640
 (a)
             
Electric Utilities 2.3%
          
             146,000
NextEra Energy Inc.
      
           10,370,380
 (a)
             
Independent Power and Renewable Electricity Producers 11.1%
    
             400,000
Clearway Energy Inc.
      
           12,564,000
 (a)
             525,000
NextEra Energy Partners LP
      
           34,786,500
 (a)
             100,986
Northland Power Inc.
      
             2,453,416
  
         
           49,803,916
  
             
Multi-Utilities 7.3%
          
             480,000
CenterPoint Energy Inc.
      
           13,353,600
 (a)
             132,000
Sempra Energy
      
           19,794,720
 (a)
         
           33,148,320
  
             
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels 56.6%
          
             840,000
Antero Midstream Corp.
      
             8,853,600
 (a)
             816,000
Antero Resources Corp.
      
           21,379,200
 (a)*
             150,000
Cheniere Energy Inc.
      
           23,601,000
  
               18,000
Chevron Corp.
      
             2,893,860
  
             236,000
Civitas Resources Inc.
      
           16,560,120
 (a)
             164,000
ConocoPhillips
      
           16,949,400
 (a)
             196,000
Denbury Inc.
      
           16,340,520
 (a)*
             436,000
Kinetik Holdings Inc.
      
           12,971,000
 (a)
               20,000
New Fortress Energy Inc.
      
                659,800
  
               54,000
Occidental Petroleum Corp.
      
             3,162,240
  
             425,000
ONEOK Inc.
      
           27,816,250
 (a)
             944,000
Targa Resources Corp.
      
           69,950,400
 (a)
          1,100,000
Williams Cos Inc.
      
           33,110,000
 (a)
         
         254,247,390
  
             
Total Common Stocks (Cost $250,046,891)
    
         352,018,646
  
             
NUMBER OF UNITS
          
             
Master Limited Partnerships and Limited Partnerships 42.9%
    
             
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure 2.9%
          
             284,000
Cedar Fair LP
      
           13,041,280
 (a)
             
Oil & Gas Storage & Transportation 39.5%
        
          4,160,000
Energy Transfer LP
      
           52,665,600
 (a)
          2,416,000
Enterprise Products Partners LP
      
           61,680,480
 (a)
             132,000
MPLX LP
      
             4,571,160
 (a)
             636,000
NuStar Energy LP
      
             9,927,960
 (a)
          1,860,000
Western Midstream Partners LP
      
           48,378,600
 (a)*
         
         177,223,800
  
             
Renewable Electricity 0.5%
          
               90,000
Brookfield Renewable Partners LP
      
             2,350,800
 (a)
             
Total Master Limited Partnerships and Limited Partnerships (Cost $118,019,066)
         192,615,880
  
             
NUMBER OF SHARES
          
             
Short-Term Investments 0.2%
          
             
 Investment Companies 0.2%
          
             687,725
Invesco STIT Treasury Portfolio Money Market Fund Institutional Class, 4.50%(b) (Cost $687,725)
 $             687,725
  
             
Total Investments 121.4% (Cost $368,753,682)
      
         545,322,251
  
Liabilities less other Assets (21.4)%
      
         (95,991,424)
  
Net Assets Applicable to Common Stockholders 100.0%
  
 $      449,330,827
  
             
* Non-income producing security.
          
(a) All or a portion of this security is pledged with the custodian in connection with the Fund's loans payable outstanding.
(b) Represents 7-day effective yield as of February 28, 2023.
    
             
See Notes to Schedule of Investments
          


Schedule of Investments MLP and Energy Income Fund Inc.^ (Unaudited) (cont'd)
  
             
The following is a summary, categorized by Level (see Notes to Schedule of Investments), of inputs used to value the Fund's investments as of February 28, 2023:
             
             
Asset Valuation Inputs
          
Investments:
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Total
  
Common Stocks(a)
 $     352,018,646
 $                    -
 $                         -
 $    352,018,646
  
Master Limited Partnerships and Limited Partnerships(a)
         192,615,880
                         -
                            -
       192,615,880
  
Short-Term Investments
                              -
            687,725
                            -
               687,725
  
Total Investments
 $     544,634,526
 $        687,725
 $                         -
 $    545,322,251
  
             
          (a)   The Schedule of Investments provides information on the industry or sector categorization.
             
        ^   A balance indicated with a "—", reflects either a zero balance or an amount that rounds to less than 1.


February 28, 2023

Notes to Schedule of Investments MLP and Energy Income Fund Inc.
(Unaudited)

In accordance with Accounting Standards Codification 820 “Fair Value Measurement” (“ASC 820”), all investments held by Neuberger Berman MLP and Energy Income Fund Inc. (the “Fund”), are carried at the value that Neuberger Berman Investment Advisers LLC (“Management”) believes the Fund would receive upon selling an investment in an orderly transaction to an independent buyer in the principal or most advantageous market for the investment under current market conditions. Various inputs, including the volume and level of activity for the asset or liability in the market, are considered in valuing the Fund’s investments, some of which are discussed below. Significant Management judgment may be necessary to value investments in accordance with ASC 820.

ASC 820 established a three-tier hierarchy of inputs to create a classification of value measurements for disclosure purposes. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized in the three broad Levels listed below.

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Level 1 – unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

•
Level 2 – other observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, amortized cost, etc.)

•
Level 3 – unobservable inputs (including the Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The inputs or methodology used for valuing an investment are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

The value of the Fund’s investments in equity securities and master limited partnerships and limited partnerships, for which market quotations are available, is generally determined by Management by obtaining valuations from independent pricing services based on the latest sale price quoted on a principal exchange or market for that security (Level 1 inputs). Securities traded primarily on the NASDAQ Stock Market are normally valued at the NASDAQ Official Closing Price (“NOCP”) provided by NASDAQ each business day. The NOCP is the most recently reported price as of 4:00:02 p.m., Eastern Time, unless that price is outside the range of the “inside” bid and asked prices (i.e., the bid and asked prices that dealers quote to each other when trading for their own accounts); in that case, NASDAQ will adjust the price to equal the inside bid or asked price, whichever is closer. Because of delays in reporting trades, the NOCP may not be based on the price of the last trade to occur before the market closes. If there is no sale of a security on a particular day, the independent pricing services may value the security based on market quotations.

The value of the Fund’s investments in foreign securities is generally determined using the same valuation methods and inputs as other Fund investments, as discussed above. Foreign security prices expressed in local currency values are normally translated from the local currency into U.S. dollars using the exchange rates as of 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time on days the New York Stock Exchange is open for business. Management has approved the use of ICE Data Services (“ICE”) to assist in determining the fair value of foreign equity securities when changes in the value of a certain index suggest that the closing prices on the foreign exchanges may no longer represent the amount that the Fund could expect to receive for those securities or on days when foreign markets are closed and U.S. markets are open. In each of these events, ICE will provide adjusted prices for certain foreign equity securities using a statistical analysis of historical correlations of multiple factors (Level 2 inputs). In the absence of precise information about the market values of these foreign securities as of the time as of which the Fund’s share price is calculated, Management has determined on the basis of available data that prices adjusted or evaluated in this way are likely to be closer to the prices the Fund could realize on a current sale than are the prices of those securities established at the close of the foreign markets in which the securities primarily trade.

Management has developed a process to periodically review information provided by independent pricing services for all types of securities.

Investments in non-exchange traded investment companies are valued using the respective fund’s daily calculated net asset value per share (Level 2 inputs), when available.

If a valuation is not available from an independent pricing service, or if Management has reason to believe that the valuation received does not represent the amount the Fund might reasonably expect to receive on a current sale in an orderly transaction, Management seeks to obtain quotations from brokers or dealers (generally considered Level 2 or Level 3 inputs depending on the number of quotes available). If such quotations are not available, the security is valued using methods Management has approved in the good-faith belief that the resulting valuation will reflect the fair value of the security. Pursuant to Rule 2a-5 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the Fund’s Board of Directors designated Management as the Fund’s valuation designee. As the Fund’s valuation designee, Management is responsible for determining fair value in good faith for any and all Fund investments. Inputs and assumptions considered in determining the fair value of a security based on Level 2 or Level 3 inputs may include, but are not limited to, the type of the security; the initial cost of the security; the existence of any contractual restrictions on the security’s disposition; the price and extent of public trading in similar securities of the issuer or of comparable companies; quotations or evaluated prices from broker-dealers and/or pricing services; information obtained from the issuer and/or analysts; an analysis of the company’s or issuer’s financial statements; an evaluation of the inputs that influence the issuer and the market(s) in which the security is purchased and sold.

Fair value prices are necessarily estimates, and there is no assurance that such a price will be at or close to the price at which the security is next quoted or next trades.

Other matters:

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and corresponding events in late February 2022, have had, and could continue to have, severe adverse effects on regional and global economic markets for securities and commodities. Following Russia’s actions, various governments, including the United States, have issued broad-ranging economic sanctions against Russia. The current events have had, and could continue to have, an adverse effect on global markets performance and liquidity, thereby negatively affecting the value of the Fund’s investments beyond any direct exposure to Russian or Ukrainian issuers. The duration of ongoing hostilities and the vast array of sanctions and related events cannot be predicted. Those events present material uncertainty and risk with respect to markets globally and the performance of the Fund and its investments or operations could be negatively impacted.

Coronavirus: The outbreak of the novel coronavirus in many countries has, among other things, disrupted global travel and supply chains, and adversely impacted global commercial activity, the transportation industry and commodity prices in the energy sector. The impact of this virus has negatively affected and may continue to affect the economies of many nations, individual companies and the global securities and commodities markets, including liquidity and volatility. The development and fluidity of this situation precludes any prediction as to its ultimate impact, which may have a continued adverse effect on global economic and market conditions. Such conditions (which may be across industries, sectors or geographies) have impacted and may continue to impact the issuers of the securities held by the Fund and in turn, may impact the financial performance of the Fund.


For information on the Fund’s significant accounting policies, please refer to the Fund’s most recent stockholder reports.