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Brookfield Real Assets Income Fund (RA) currently has a distribution rate of 17.24%. It has had struggles actually covering this high of a distribution. To help close the gap from what the fund is earning compared to what it is paying out, they just recently closed on a reorganization of Brookfield Global Listed Infrastructure Income Fund (INF) into RA. The managers believe this merger will create potentially better coverage of the fund's distribution going forward by adding more equity exposure. The problem with this is that this