The Cushing MLP Total Return Fund

Cushing MLP Total Return Fund

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Investment Advisor

The Fund's investments will be managed by its Investment Adviser, Swank Energy Income Advisors, LP. The Investment Adviser is also investment adviser to affiliated funds, which invest primarily in securities of MLPs and Other Natural Resource Companies and global commodities. Since 2003, the Investment Adviser has managed affiliated funds with a focus on achieving a high after-tax total return from a combination of capital appreciation and current income (as opposed to relative performance against a benchmark index). The Investment Adviser seeks to identify and exploit investment niches it believes are generally less understood and less followed by the broader investor community.

As of May 1, 2007, the Investment Adviser managed approximately $2 billion in assets on behalf of institutional and private investors around the world.

Competitive Strengths

The Investment Adviser considers itself one of the principal professional institutional investors in the MLP space based on the following:

• An investment team with extensive experience in MLP analysis and investment, portfolio management, risk management, and private securities transactions.
  
  
• A focus on bottom-up, fundamental analysis performed by its experienced investment team.
  
  
• The investment team's wide range of professional backgrounds, market knowledge, industry relationships, and experience in the analysis, financing, and structuring of MLP investments give the Investment Adviser insight into, and the ability to identify and capitalize on, investment opportunities in MLPs and Other Natural Resource Companies.