NCV vs CBIO Comparison

Virtus Convertible & Income Fund is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to provide total return through a combination of capital appreciation and high current income. It intends to achieve the objective by investing in a portfolio of domestic convertible securities and non-convertible income-producing securities. Its portfolio of investments includes Software, the Internet, the Commercial Services sector in the form of Convertible Bonds and Notes, and Media, Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels, and Entertainment sector in the form of Corporate Bonds and Notes.

Crescent Biopharma Inc is a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics to treat solid tumors, led by CR-001, a proprietary anti-PD-1/anti-VEGF bispecific antibody. Crescent believes CR-001 has the potential to deliver improved clinical efficacy and safety over pembrolizumab. CR-001 is a new molecular entity designed to replicate the functional properties of ivonescimab, a cooperative bispecific anti-PD-1/anti-VEGF antibody in development by Akeso Biopharma and Summit Therapeutics that delivered improved efficacy in a head-to-head Phase 3 clinical trial versus Keytruda in non-small cell lung cancer. Crescent is advancing its second and third programs, CR-002 and CR-003, which are antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) against validated oncology targets.