MUC vs VRTS Comparison

BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund Inc is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to provide shareholders with current income exempt from U.S. federal income taxes and California personal income taxes. The fund mainly invests in municipal obligations exempt from U.S. federal income taxes (except that the interest may be subject to the U.S. federal alternative minimum tax) and California personal income taxes. Under normal market conditions, it invests a majority of its managed assets in investment-grade municipal obligations with remaining maturities of one year or more at the time of investment. It can also invest in below investment-grade securities, or directly in such securities or synthetically through the use of derivatives.

Virtus Investment Partners Inc provides investment management and related services to institutions and individuals. It uses a multi-manager, multi-style approach, offering investment strategies from investment managers, each having its distinct investment style, autonomous investment process, and individual brand, as well as from select unaffiliated managers for certain funds. Through its multi-manager model, the group provides investment managers with distribution, business, and operational support. The Company operates in one business segment, namely as an asset manager providing investment management and related services for individual and institutional clients.