Company Nuveen Core Equity Alpha Fund

Nuveen Core Equity Alpha Fund (the Fund) is a diversified closed-end management investment fund. The Fund's investment objective is to provide an attractive level of total return primarily through long term capital appreciation and secondarily through income and gains. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in the equity portfolio. The Fund invests in a portfolio of actively managed large capitalization United States common stocks. It intends to limit the overlap between the stocks held in the equity portfolio and the stocks underlying the Fund’s call options to less than 70%. The Fund may invest up to 10% of is managed assets in securities of other open- or closed-end investment companies (including ETFs) that invest primarily in securities of the types in which the Fund may invest directly. In addition, the Fund may invest a portion of its managed assets in pooled investment vehicles. The Fund's investment advisor is Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC.