Madison Covered Call & Equity Strategy Fund

Madison Covered Call & Equity Strategy Fund (the Fund) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's primary investment objective is to provide a high level of current income and current gains, with a secondary objective of long-term capital appreciation. The Fund pursue its investment objectives by investing primarily in large and mid-capitalization common stocks. Under normal market conditions, the Fund seeks to generate current earnings from option premiums by writing (selling) covered call options on a substantial portion of its portfolio securities. The Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in common stocks, with at least 65% of its total assets in common stocks of large capitalization issuers. The Fund may invest the remainder of its total assets in companies that meet the Fund's growth and value criteria but whose market capitalization is considered as middle-sized or mid-cap. The Fund's investment advisor is Madison Asset Management, LLC.