TSI TCW Strategic Income Fund Inc

ICAP Bond (5-98)

Form 17-02-1421 (Ed. 5-98)

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f.    Proof of loss involving Voice Initiated Funds Transfer Instruction shall include electronic recordings of such instructions.

Deductible Amount

8.   The COMPANY shall not be liable under any INSURING CLAUSES of this Bond on account of loss unless the amount of such loss, after deducting the net amount of all reimbursement and/or recovery obtained or made by the ASSURED, other than from any Bond or policy of insurance issued by an insurance company and covering such loss, or by the COMPANY on account thereof prior to payment by the COMPANY of such loss, shall exceed the DEDUCTIBLE AMOUNT set forth in ITEM 3. of the DECLARATIONS, and then for such excess only, but in no event for more than the applicable LIMITS OF LIABILITY stated in ITEM 2. of the DECLARATIONS.

There shall be no deductible applicable to any loss under INSURING CLAUSE 1. sustained by any Investment Company.

Valuation

9.   BOOKS OF ACCOUNT OR OTHER RECORDS

The value of any loss of Property consisting of books of account or other records used by the ASSURED in the conduct of its business shall be the amount paid by the ASSURED for blank books, blank pages, or other materials which replace the lost books of account or other records, plus the cost of labor paid by the ASSURED for the actual transcription or copying of data to reproduce such books of account or other records.

The value of any loss of Property other than books of account or other records used by the ASSURED in the conduct of its business, for which a claim is made shall be determined by the average market value of such Property on the business day immediately preceding discovery of such loss provided, however, that the value of any Property replaced by the ASSURED with the consent of the COMPANY and prior to the settlement of any claim for such Property shall be the actual market value at the time of replacement.

In the case of a loss of interim certificates, warrants, rights or other securities, the production of which is necessary to the exercise of subscription, conversion, redemption or deposit privileges, the value of them shall be the market value of such privileges immediately preceding their expiration if said loss is not discovered until after their expiration. If no market price is quoted for such Property or for such privileges, the value shall be fixed by agreement between the parties.

OTHER PROPERTY

The value of any loss of Property, other than as stated above, shall be the actual cash value or the cost of repairing or replacing such Property with Property of like quality and value, whichever is less.

ICAP Bond (5-98)

Form 17-02-1421 (Ed. 5-98)

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10.  In the event of a loss of securities covered under this Bond, the COMPANY may, at its sole discretion, purchase replacement securities, tender the value of the securities in money, or issue its indemnity to effect replacement securities.

The indemnity required from the ASSURED under the terms of this Section against all loss, cost or expense arising from the replacement of securities by the COMPANY’S indemnity shall be:

a.   for securities having a value less than or equal to the applicable DEDUCTIBLE AMOUNT - one hundred (100%) percent;

b.   for securities having a value in excess of the DEDUCTIBLE AMOUNT but within the applicable LIMIT OF LIABILITY - the percentage that the DEDUCTIBLE AMOUNT bears to the value of the securities;

c.   for securities having a value greater than the applicable LIMIT OF LIABILITY - the percentage that the DEDUCTIBLE AMOUNT and portion in excess of the applicable LIMIT OF LIABILITY bears to the value of the securities.

The value referred to in Section 10.a., b., and c. is the value in accordance with Section 9, Valuation, regardless of the value of such securities at the time the loss under the COMPANY’S indemnity is sustained.

The COMPANY is not required to issue its indemnity for any portion of a loss of securities which is not covered by this Bond; however, the COMPANY may do so as a courtesy to the ASSURED and at its sole discretion.

The ASSURED shall pay the proportion of the Company’s premium charge for the Company’s indemnity as set forth in Section 10.a., b., and c. No portion of the LIMIT OF LIABILITY shall be used as payment of premium for any indemnity purchased by the ASSURED to obtain replacement securities.

Subrogation - Assignment - Recovery

11.  In the event of a payment under this Bond, the COMPANY shall be subrogated to all of the ASSURED’S rights of recovery against any person or entity to the extent of such payment. On request, the ASSURED shall deliver to the COMPANY an assignment of the ASSURED’S rights, title and interest and causes of action against any person or entity to the extent of such payment.

Recoveries, whether effected by the COMPANY or by the ASSURED, shall be applied net of the expense of such recovery in the following order:

a.   first, to the satisfaction of the ASSURED’S loss which would otherwise have been paid but for the fact that it is in excess of the applicable LIMIT OF LIABILITY,

b.   second, to the COMPANY in satisfaction of amounts paid in settlement of the ASSURED’S claim,

c.   third, to the ASSURED in satisfaction of the applicable DEDUCTIBLE AMOUNT, and

ICAP Bond (5-98)

Form 17-02-1421 (Ed. 5-98)

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Subrogation - Assignment – Recovery

(continued)

d.   fourth, to the ASSURED in satisfaction of any loss suffered by the ASSURED which was not covered under this Bond.

Recovery from reinsurance or indemnity of the COMPANY shall not be deemed a recovery under this section.

Cooperation Of Assured

12.  At the COMPANY’S request and at reasonable times and places designated by the COMPANY, the ASSURED shall:

a.   submit to examination by the COMPANY and subscribe to the same under oath,

b.   produce for the COMPANY’S examination all pertinent records, and

c.   cooperate with the COMPANY in all matters pertaining to the loss.

The ASSURED shall execute all papers and render assistance to secure to the COMPANY the rights and causes of action provided for under this Bond. The ASSURED shall do nothing after loss to prejudice such rights or causes of action.

Termination

13.  If the Bond is for a sole ASSURED, it shall not be terminated unless written notice shall have been given by the acting party to the affected party and to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C., not less than sixty (60) days prior to the effective date of such termination.

If the Bond is for a joint ASSURED, it shall not be terminated unless written notice shall have been given by the acting party to the affected party, and by the COMPANY to all ASSURED Investment Companies and to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C., not less than sixty (60) days prior to the effective date of such termination.

This Bond will terminate as to any one ASSURED, other than an Investment Company:

a.   immediately on the taking over of such ASSURED by a receiver or other liquidator or by State or Federal officials, or

b.   immediately on the filing of a petition under any State or Federal statute relative to bankruptcy or reorganization of the ASSURED, or assignment for the benefit of creditors of the ASSURED, or

c.   immediately upon such ASSURED ceasing to exist, whether through merger into another entity, disposition of all of its assets or otherwise.

The COMPANY shall refund the unearned premium computed at short rates in accordance with the standard short rate cancellation tables if terminated by the ASSURED or pro rata if terminated for any other reason.

ICAP Bond (5-98)

Form 17-02-1421 (Ed. 5-98)

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Termination

(continued)

If any partner, director, trustee, or officer or supervisory employee of an ASSURED not acting in collusion with an Employee learns of any dishonest act committed by such Employee at any time, whether in the employment of the ASSURED or otherwise, whether or not such act is of the type covered under this Bond, and whether against the ASSURED or any other person or entity, the ASSURED:

a.   shall immediately remove such Employee from a position that would enable such Employee to cause the ASSURED to suffer a loss covered by this Bond; and

b.   within forty-eight (48) hours of learning that an Employee has committed any dishonest act, shall notify the COMPANY, of such action and provide full particulars of such dishonest act.

The COMPANY may terminate coverage as respects any Employee sixty (60) days after written notice is received by each ASSURED Investment Company and the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C. of its desire to terminate this Bond as to such Employee.

Other Insurance

14.  Coverage under this Bond shall apply only as excess over any valid and collectible insurance, indemnity or suretyship obtained by or on behalf of:

a.   the ASSURED,

b.   a Transportation Company, or

c.   another entity on whose premises the loss occurred or which employed the person causing the loss or engaged the messenger conveying the Property involved.

Conformity

15.  If any limitation within this Bond is prohibited by any law controlling this Bond’s construction, such limitation shall be deemed to be amended so as to equal the minimum period of limitation provided by such law.

Change or Modification

16.  This Bond or any instrument amending or affecting this Bond may not be changed or modified orally. No change in or modification of this Bond shall be effective except when made by written endorsement to this Bond signed by an authorized representative of the COMPANY.

If this Bond is for a sole ASSURED, no change or modification which would adversely affect the rights of the ASSURED shall be effective prior to sixty (60) days after written notice has been furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C., by the acting party.

ICAP Bond (5-98)

Form 17-02-1421 (Ed. 5-98)

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the creation of a new Investment Company, other than by consolidation or merger with, or purchase or acquisition of assets or liabilities of, another institution; or

an increase in asset size of current Investment Companies covered under this Bond,

METWEST FUNDS; TCW STRATEGIC INCOME FUND, INC.;

TCW FUNDS, INC.

The following Insuring Clause is added:

the fraudulent instruction purports, and reasonably appears, to have originated from:

such Customer, or

an Employee acting on instructions of such Customer, or

another financial institution acting on behalf of such Customer with authority to make such instructions; and

the sender of the fraudulent instruction verified the instruction with the password, PIN, or other security code of such Customer; and

the sender was not, in fact, such Customer, was not authorized to act on behalf of such Customer, and was not an Employee; and

the instruction was received by an Employee specifically authorized by the ASSURED to receive and act upon such instructions; and

for any transfer exceeding the amount set forth in paragraph (8) of this endorsement, the ASSURED verified the instructions via a call back to a predetermined telephone number set forth in the ASSURED’s written agreement with such Customer or other verification procedure approved in writing by the COMPANY; and

the ASSURED preserved a contemporaneous record of the call back, if any, and the instruction which verifies use of the authorized password, PIN or other security code of the Customer.

For the purposes of the coverage afforded by this endorsement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

represented by an instrument issued in bearer or registered form, and

of a type commonly dealt in on securities exchanges or markets or commonly recognized in any area in which it is issued or dealt in as a medium for investment, and

14-02-21330 (10/2014)

either one of a class or series or by its terms divisible into a class or series of shares, participations, interests or obligations.

not represented by an instrument and the transfer of which is registered on books maintained for that purpose by or on behalf of the issuer, and

of a type commonly dealt in on securities exchanges or markets, and

either one of a class or series or by its terms divisible into a class or series of shares, participations, interests or obligations.

It shall be a condition precedent to coverage under this Insuring Clause that the ASSURED assert any available claims, offsets or defenses against such Customer, any financial institution or any other party to the transaction.

Solely with respect to the Fraudulent Transfer Instruction Insuring Clause, the following Exclusions are added:

Loss resulting directly or indirectly from a fraudulent instruction if the sender, or anyone acting in collusion with the sender, ever had authorized access to such Customer’s password, PIN or other security code; and

Loss resulting directly or indirectly from the fraudulent alteration of an instruction to initiate an automated clearing house (ACH) entry, or group of ACH entries, transmitted as an electronic message, or as an attachment to an electronic message, sent via the internet, unless:

each ACH entry was individually verified via the call back procedure without regard to the amount of the entry; or

the instruction was formatted, encoded or encrypted so that any altercation in the ACH entry or group of ACH entries would be apparent to the ASSURED.

Solely with respect to the Fraudulent Transfer Instruction Insuring Clause, Exclusion 2.k. is deleted and replaced with the following:

loss resulting from voice requests or instructions received over the telephone, provided however, this Section 2.k. shall not apply to INSURING CLAUSE 7. or 9. or the Fraudulent Transfer Instruction Insuring Clause.

For the purposes of the Fraudulent Transfer Instruction Insuring Clause, all loss or losses involving one natural person or entity, or one group of natural persons or entities acting together, shall be a Single Loss without regard to the number of transfers or the number of instructions involved.

For the purposes of the Fraudulent Transfer Instruction Insuring Clause, the Single Loss Limit of Liability shall be $ 5,750,000. The Deductible Amount shall be $ 10,000.

The amount of any single transfer for which verification via call back will be required is: $ 10,000.

14-02-21330 (10/2014)

Authorized Representative

14-02-21330 (10/2014)

NAME OF ASSURED: METWEST FUNDS; TCW STRATEGIC INCOME FUND, INC.;

                 TCW FUNDS, INC.

By adding the following INSURING CLAUSE:

Automated Telephone System Transaction

By adding to Section 1., Definitions, the following:

No APS Transaction shall be executed unless the shareholder or unitholder to whose account such an APS Transaction relates has previously elected to APS Transactions. (Election in Application)

All APS Transactions shall be logged or otherwise recorded and the records shall be retained for at least six (6) months. (Logging)

Information contained in the records shall be capable of being retrieved and produced within a reasonable time after retrieval of specific information is requested, at a success rate of no less than 85 percent.

The caller in any request for an APS Transaction, before executing that APS Transaction must enter a personal identification number (PIN), social security number and account number. (Identity Test)

ICAP Bond

Form 17-02-2345 (Ed. 10-00)

A written confirmation of any APS Transaction or change of address shall be mailed to the shareholder or unitholder to whose account such transaction relates, at the record address, by the end of the insured’s next regular processing cycle, but in no event later than five (5) business days following such APS Transaction. (Written Confirmation)

Access to the equipment which permits the entity receiving the APS Transaction request to process and effect the transaction shall be limited in the following manner: (Access to APS Equipment)

APS Election means any election concerning various account features available to the shareholder or unitholder which is made through the Automated Phone System by means of information transmitted by an individual caller through use of a Automated Phone System. These features include account statements, auto exchange, auto asset builder, automatic withdrawal, dividend/capital gain options, dividend sweep, telephone balance consent and change of address.

APS Exchange means any exchange of shares or units in a registered account of one fund into shares or units in an account with the same tax identification number and same ownership-type code of another fund in the same complex pursuant to exchange privileges of the two funds, which exchange is requested through the Automated Phone System by means of information transmitted by an individual caller through use of an Automated Phone System.

APS Purchase means any purchase of shares or units issued by an Investment Company which is requested through an Automated Phone System.

APS Redemption means any redemption of shares or units issued by an Investment Company which it requested through the telephone by means of information transmitted by an individual caller through use of a Automated Phone System.

APS Transaction means any APS Purchase, APS Redemption, APS Election or APS Exchange.

Automated Phone System means an automated system which receives and converts to executable instructions transmissions through the Automated Phone System through use of a touch-tone keypad or other tone system; and always excluding transmissions from a computer system or part thereof.

By adding the following Section after Section 4., Specific Exclusions-Applicable To All Insuring Clauses Except 1., 4., 5.:

the redemption of shares or units, where the proceeds of such redemption are made payable to other than:

the shares or units of record,

a person designated to receive redemption proceeds, or

a bank account designated to receive redemption proceeds, or

the redemption of shares or units, where the proceeds of such redemption are paid by check mailed to any address, unless such address has either been designated the shareholder or

ICAP Bond

Form 17-02-2345 (Ed. 10-00)

unitholder by voice through an Automated Phone System or in writing, at least thirty (30) days prior to such redemption, or

the redemption of shares or units, where shareholder or unitholder of the ASSURED designated bank account of record.

ICAP Bond

Form 17-02-2345 (Ed. 10-00)

FEDERAL INSURANCE COMPANY

Endorsement No.: 6

Bond Number:       82484952

By adding the following INSURING CLAUSE:

Extended Computer Systems

Electronic Data, Electronic Media, Electronic Instruction

the fraudulent modification of Electronic Data, Electronic Media or Electronic Instruction being stored within or being run within any system covered under this INSURING CLAUSE,

robbery, burglary, larceny or theft of Electronic Data, Electronic Media or Electronic Instructions,

the acts of a hacker causing damage or destruction of Electronic Data, Electronic Media or Electronic Instruction owned by the ASSURED or for which the ASSURED is legally liable, while stored within a Computer System covered under this INSURING CLAUSE, or

the damage or destruction of Electronic Data, Electronic Media or Electronic Instruction owned by the ASSURED or for which the ASSURED is legally liable while stored within a Computer System covered under INSURING CLAUSE 12, provided such damage or destruction was caused by a computer program or similar instruction which was written or altered to intentionally incorporate a hidden instruction designed to damage or destroy Electronic Data, Electronic Media, or Electronic Instruction in the Computer System in which the computer program or instruction so written or so altered is used.

ICAP2 Bond

Form 17-02-2976 (Ed. 1-02)

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Electronic Communication

an Electronic Communication System,

an automated clearing house or custodian, or

a Telex, TWX, or similar means of communication,

Electronic Transmission

an Electronic Communication System,

an automated clearing house or custodian, or

a Telex, TWX, or similar means of communication,

ICAP2 Bond

Form 17-02-2976 (Ed. 1-02)

Page 2

By adding to Section 1., Definitions, the following:

Communication Terminal means a teletype, teleprinter or video display terminal, or similar device capable of sending or receiving information electronically. Communication Terminal does not mean a telephone.

Electronic Communication System means electronic communication operations by Fedwire, Clearing House Interbank Payment System (CHIPS), Society of Worldwide International Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), similar automated interbank communication systems, and Internet access facilities.

Electronic Data means facts or information converted to a form usable in Computer Systems and which is stored on Electronic Media for use by computer programs.

Electronic Instruction means computer programs converted to a form usable in a Computer System to act upon Electronic Data.

Electronic Media means the magnetic tape, magnetic disk, optical disk, or any other bulk media on which data is recorded.

By adding the following Section after Section 4., Specific Exclusions-Applicable to All INSURING CLAUSES except 1., 4., and 5.:

loss resulting directly or indirectly from Forged, altered or fraudulent negotiable instruments, securities, documents or written instruments used as source documentation in the preparation of Electronic Data;

loss of negotiable instruments, securities, documents or written instruments except as converted to Electronic Data and then only in that converted form;

loss resulting from mechanical failure, faulty construction, error in design, latent defect, wear or tear, gradual deterioration, electrical disturbance, Electronic Media failure or breakdown or any malfunction or error in programming or error or omission in processing;

loss resulting directly or indirectly from the input of Electronic Data at an authorized electronic terminal of an Electronic Funds Transfer System or a Customer Communication System by a person who had authorized access from a customer to that customer’s authentication mechanism; or

liability assumed by the ASSURED by agreement under any contract, unless such liability would have attached to the ASSURED even in the absence of such agreement; or

loss resulting directly or indirectly from:

written instruction unless covered under this INSURING CLAUSE; or

instruction by voice over the telephone, unless covered under this INSURING CLAUSE.

ICAP2 Bond

Form 17-02-2976 (Ed. 1-02)

Page 3

By adding to Section 9., Valuation, the following:

ICAP2 Bond

Form 17-02-2976 (Ed. 1-02)

FEDERAL INSURANCE COMPANY

Endorsement No.: 7

Bond Number:       82484952

By adding the following INSURING CLAUSE:

Unauthorized Signature

By adding to Section 1., Definitions, the following:

Instruction means a written order to the issuer of an Uncertificated Security requesting that the transfer, pledge or release from pledge of the specified Uncertificated Security be registered.

Uncertificated Security means a share, participation or other interest in property of or an enterprise of the issuer or an obligation of the issuer, which is:

not represented by an instrument and the transfer of which is registered on books maintained for that purpose by or on behalf of the issuer, and

of a type commonly dealt in on securities exchanges or markets, and

either one of a class or series or by its terms divisible into a class or series of shares, participations, interests or obligations.

ICAP Bond

Form 17-02-5602 (Ed. 10-03)

Withdrawal Order means a non-negotiable instrument, other than an Instruction, signed by a customer of the ASSURED authorizing the ASSURED to debit the customer’s account in the amount of funds stated therein.

ICAP Bond

Form 17-02-5602 (Ed. 10-03)

FEDERAL INSURANCE COMPANY

Endorsement No.: 8

Bond Number:       82484952

By adding the following INSURING CLAUSE:

Claims Expense

the loss is covered under the Bond, and

the loss is in excess of the applicable DEDUCTIBLE AMOUNT.

Under General Exclusions-Applicable To All Insuring Clauses, Section 2.f. does not apply to loss covered under this INSURING CLAUSE.

ICAP Bond

Form 17-02-6282 (Ed. 11-04)

Endorsement No.:   9

Bond Number:         82484952

By adding the following INSURING CLAUSE:

Stop Payment Order or Refusal to Pay Check

complying or failing to comply with notice from any customer of the ASSURED or any authorized representative of such customer, to stop payment on any check or draft made or drawn upon or against the ASSURED by such customer or by any authorized representative of such customer, or

refusing to pay any check or draft made or drawn upon or against the ASSURED by any customer of the ASSURED or by any authorized representative of such customer.”

By adding the following Specific Exclusion:

liability assumed by the ASSURED by agreement under any contract, unless such liability would have attached to the ASSURED even in the absence of such agreement,

loss arising out of:

libel, slander, wrongful entry, eviction, defamation, false arrest, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, assault or battery,

sickness, disease, physical bodily harm, mental or emotional distress or anguish, or death of any person, or

discrimination.”

affixing the handwritten signature, or a reproduction of the handwritten signature, of another natural person without authorization and with the intent to deceive; or

affixing the name of an organization as an endorsement to a check without authority and with the intent to deceive.

The paragraph titled Other Property in Section 9, Valuation, is deleted in its entirety.

The third paragraph in Section 16, Change or Modification, is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following: If this Bond is for a joint ASSURED, no change or modification which would adversely affect the rights of the ASSURED shall be effective prior to sixty (60) days after written notice has been furnished to all insured Investment Companies and the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C., by the COMPANY.

17-02-2437 (12/2006) rev.

Each such Fund sustaining a loss shall be allocated an amount equal to the lesser of its actual loss or the minimum amount of the fidelity bond which would be required to be maintained by such party under a single insured bond (determined as of the time of the loss in accordance with the provisions of Rule 17g-1).

The remaining portion of the recovery (if any) shall be allocated to each party sustaining a loss not fully indemnified by the allocation under subparagraph (i) in the same proportion as the portion of each party’s loss which is not fully indemnified bears to the sum of the unindemnified losses of all such parties. If such allocation would result in any party receiving a portion of the recovery in excess of the loss actually sustained by it, the aggregate of such excess portions shall be allocated among the other parties whose losses would not be fully indemnified in the same proportion as the portion of each such party’s loss which is not fully indemnified bears to the sum of all of the unindemnified losses of all such parties. Any allocation in excess of a loss actually sustained by any party shall be reallocated in the same manner.

That it is managed by a direct or indirect subsidiary of The TCW Group, Inc.;

That it is a regulated management investment company required to provide and maintain in effect a fidelity bond against larceny and embezzlement by its officers and employees by Rule 17g-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “Act”);

That the company qualifies under the terms of Rule 17g-1 for inclusion as a named insured on the joint insured bonds maintained by the Parties;

That a majority of the Boards of Directors/Trustees/Managing General Partners of the company who are not “interested persons” of such party was defined by Section 2(a)(19) of the Act, have given due consideration to all factors relevant to the form, amount and ratable allocation of premiums of such joint insured bonds, and such governing body has approved the terms and amount of the bonds and the portion of the premiums payable by the company under the Agreement;

That the company has determined that the allocation of the proceeds payable under the joint insured bonds as set forth in the Agreement (which takes into account the minimum amount of bond required for each party by Rule 17g-1 if it maintained a single insured bond) is equitable;