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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM N-CSR

CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED

MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES

Investment Company Act file number 811-22467

Kayne Anderson Midstream/Energy Fund, Inc.

 

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

 

811 Main Street, 14th Floor, Houston, Texas

   

77002

(Address of principal executive offices)     (Zip code)

David Shladovsky, Esq.

KA Fund Advisors, LLC, 811 Main Street, 14th Floor, Houston, Texas 77002

(Name and address of agent for service)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (713) 493-2020

Date of fiscal year end: November 30, 2015

Date of reporting period: May 31, 2015

Form N-CSR is to be used by management investment companies to file reports with the Commission not later than 10 days after the transmission to stockholders of any report that is required to be transmitted to stockholders under Rule 30e-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (17 CFR 270.30e-1). The Commission may use the information provided on Form N-CSR in its regulatory, disclosure review, inspection, and policymaking roles.

A registrant is required to disclose the information specified by Form N-CSR, and the Commission will make this information public. A registrant is not required to respond to the collection of information contained in Form N-CSR unless the Form displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) control number. Please direct comments concerning the accuracy of the information collection burden estimate and any suggestions for reducing the burden to Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, 450 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20549-0609. The OMB has reviewed this collection of information under the clearance requirements of 44 U.S.C. § 3507.

 

 

 


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Item 1. Reports to Stockholders.

The report of Kayne Anderson Midstream/Energy Fund, Inc. (the “Registrant”) to stockholders for the semi-annual period ended May 31, 2015 is attached below.


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Midstream/Energy Fund

 

 

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KMF Semi-Annual Report

May 31, 2015


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CONTENTS

 

      Page  

Management Discussion

     1   

Portfolio Summary

     6   

Schedule of Investments

     7   

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

     13   

Statement of Operations

     14   

Statement of Changes in Net Assets Applicable to Common Stockholders

     15   

Statement of Cash Flows

     16   

Financial Highlights

     17   

Notes to Financial Statements

     20   

Glossary of Key Terms

     41   

Privacy Policy Notice

     42   

Dividend Reinvestment Plan

     44   

Proxy Voting and Portfolio Holdings Information

     47   

Repurchase Disclosure

     47   

Results of Annual Meeting of Stockholders

     48   

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS:    This report of Kayne Anderson Midstream/Energy Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”) contains “forward-looking statements” as defined under the U.S. federal securities laws. Generally, the words “believe,” “expect,” “intend,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “project,” “will” and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, which generally are not historical in nature. Forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to materially differ from the Fund’s historical experience and its present expectations or projections indicated in any forward-looking statement. These risks include, but are not limited to, changes in economic and political conditions; regulatory and legal changes; MLP industry risk; leverage risk; valuation risk; interest rate risk; tax risk; and other risks discussed in the Fund’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. The Fund undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements made herein. There is no assurance that the Fund’s investment objectives will be attained.


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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION

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Fund Overview

Kayne Anderson Midstream/Energy Fund, Inc. is a non-diversified, closed-end fund. We commenced operations on November 24, 2010. Our shares of common stock are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “KMF.”

Our investment objective is to provide a high level of total return with an emphasis on making quarterly cash distributions to our stockholders. We seek to achieve that investment objective by investing at least 80% of our total assets in the securities of companies in the Midstream/Energy Sector, consisting of (a) Midstream MLPs, (b) Midstream Companies, (c) Other MLPs and (d) Other Energy Companies. We anticipate that the majority of our investments will consist of investments in Midstream MLPs and Midstream Companies. Please see the Glossary of Key Terms on page 41 for a description of these investment categories and for the meaning of capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein.

As of May 31, 2015, we had total assets of $1.2 billion, net assets applicable to our common stock of $0.8 billion (net asset value of $36.62 per share), and 21.7 million shares of common stock outstanding. As of May 31, 2015, we held $1.0 billion in equity investments and $135 million in debt investments.

Recent Events

On July 23, 2015, Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P. (the managing member of our investment adviser) and Ares Management, L.P. entered into a definitive merger agreement to create Ares Kayne Management, L.P. The transaction is expected to close on or around January 1, 2016, subject to customary regulatory approvals and other closing conditions. See Note 14 — Subsequent Events.

Results of Operations — For the Three Months Ended May 31, 2015

Investment Income.    Investment income totaled $10.5 million for the quarter and consisted primarily of net dividends and distributions and interest income on our investments. We received $12.9 million of dividends and distributions, of which $5.5 million was treated as return of capital. Interest and other income was $3.2 million. During the second quarter, the Arc Logistics Partners LP private investment in public equity (“PIPE investment”) closed, resulting in a reduction to other income of $0.07 million and a corresponding unrealized gain related to the commitment fee earned on the transaction. We also received $1.7 million of paid-in-kind dividends during the quarter, which are not included in investment income, but are reflected as an unrealized gain.

Operating Expenses.    Operating expenses totaled $8.2 million, including $3.7 million of investment management fees, $2.7 million of interest expense (including non-cash amortization of debt issuance costs of $0.2 million), $1.3 million of preferred stock distributions (including non-cash amortization of offering costs of $0.1 million), $0.1 million of excise taxes and $0.4 million of other operating expenses.

Net Investment Income.    Our net investment income totaled $2.4 million.

Net Realized Gain.    We had a net realized gain of $24.5 million, which included $1.7 million of net realized gains from option activity.

Net Change in Unrealized Gains.    We had a net decrease in unrealized gains of $20.0 million. The net decrease consisted of $21.3 million of net unrealized losses from investments and $1.3 million of net unrealized gains from option activity.

Net Increase in Net Assets Resulting from Operations.    We had an increase in net assets resulting from operations of $6.9 million. This increase was comprised of net investment income of $2.4 million, net realized gain of $24.5 million and a net decrease in unrealized gains of $20.0 million, as noted above.

 

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Distributions to Common Stockholders

We pay quarterly distributions to our common stockholders, funded generally by net distributable income (“NDI”) generated from our portfolio investments. NDI is the amount of income received by us from our portfolio investments less operating expenses, subject to certain adjustments as described below. NDI is not a financial measure under the accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”). Refer to the “Reconciliation of NDI to GAAP” section below for a reconciliation of this measure to our results reported under GAAP.

Income from portfolio investments includes (a) cash dividends and distributions, (b) paid-in-kind dividends received (i.e., stock dividends), (c) interest income from debt securities and commitment fees from private investments in public equity (“PIPE investments”) and (d) net premiums received from the sale of covered calls.

Operating expenses include (a) investment management fees paid to our investment adviser, (b) other expenses (mostly comprised of fees paid to other service providers), (c) accrual for estimated excise taxes and (d) interest expense and preferred stock distributions.

Net Distributable Income (NDI)

(amounts in millions, except for per share amounts)

 

      Three Months
Ended
May 31,
2015
 

Distributions and Other Income from Investments

  

Dividends(1)

   $  12.9   

Paid-In-Kind Dividends and Distributions(1)

     1.7   

Interest and Other Income

     3.2   

Net Premiums Received from Call Options Written

     2.1   
  

 

 

 

Total Distributions and Other Income from Investments

     19.9   

Expenses

  

Investment Management Fee

     (3.7

Other Expenses

     (0.4

Excise Taxes

     (0.1

Interest Expense

     (2.6

Preferred Stock Distributions

     (1.2
  

 

 

 

Net Distributable Income (NDI)

   $  11.9   
  

 

 

 

Weighted Shares Outstanding

     21.7   

NDI per Weighted Share Outstanding

   $  0.550   
  

 

 

 

Adjusted NDI per Weighted Share Outstanding(2)(3)

   $  0.564   
  

 

 

 

Distributions paid per Common Share(4)

   $ 0.510   
  

 

 

 

 

(1) See Note 2 (Investment Income) to the Financial Statements for additional information regarding paid-in-kind and non-cash dividends and distributions.
(2) Adjusted NDI includes $0.2 million of consideration that we received in the Access Midstream Partners, L.P./Williams Partners L.P. and Energy Transfer Partners, L.P./Regency Energy Partners LP transactions, which represents the portion of the merger consideration that was intended to offset lower distributions ($0.8 million of total consideration amortized over a four-quarter period). Please see below for a discussion of recent merger activity and its impact on our NDI and Adjusted NDI.

 

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(3) Although $0.1 million of excise taxes were recorded in the second quarter of fiscal 2015, the tax related to cumulative undistributed income as of November 30, 2014. As a result, we have adjusted the NDI per weighted share outstanding for the second quarter of fiscal 2015 by removing the $0.1 million of excise tax.

 

(4) The distribution of $0.51 per share for the second quarter of fiscal 2015 was paid on July 17, 2015.

Payment of future distributions is subject to Board of Directors approval, as well as meeting the covenants of our debt agreements and terms of our preferred stock. Because our quarterly distributions are funded primarily by NDI generated from our portfolio investments, the Board of Directors, in determining our quarterly distribution to common stockholders, gives a significant amount of consideration to the NDI and Adjusted NDI generated in the current quarter, as well as the NDI that our portfolio is expected to generate over the next twelve months. The Board of Directors also considers other factors, including but not limited to, realized and unrealized gains generated by the portfolio.

There has been an extraordinary amount of merger activity in the MLP sector over the last year, and these mergers have generally been accomplished by the acquisition of the higher-yielding entity by the lower-yielding entity. Recent examples of transactions of this kind include: Kinder Morgan, Inc.’s acquisition of its subsidiary MLPs (Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. and El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P.) in November 2014; Access Midstream Partners, L.P.’s acquisition of Williams Partners L.P. in February 2015 (the combined entity was renamed Williams Partners L.P.); and Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.’s acquisition of Regency Energy Partners LP in April 2015. In addition, there have been three other transactions that have been announced but have not closed: Crestwood Equity Partners LP’s acquisition of Crestwood Midstream Partners LP; The Williams Companies, Inc.’s acquisition of Williams Partners L.P.; and MPLX LP’s acquisition of MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P.

These mergers have had an impact on us in two ways. First, in certain cases, the acquiring entity has deemed part of the merger consideration to be compensation to help offset the lower quarterly distribution that unitholders of the acquired entity would receive after closing. Given that this portion of the merger consideration was to help offset lower distributions, we believe it to be appropriate to include these amounts in Adjusted NDI, and this merger consideration was one of the factors that the Board of Directors considered in determining the quarterly distribution. Secondly, the resulting NDI, even after giving effect to the adjustments described above, is often lower as a result of these mergers. However, we believe that the resulting merged entities will generally have higher distribution growth rates, and more stable cash flows. While our NDI is lower as a result of these transactions, we expect NDI growth to offset this decline in the next several quarters.

As a regulated investment company (“RIC”), we are required to distribute all of our income to avoid paying federal income taxes. At November 30, 2014, we had a total of $73.4 million of undistributed ordinary income and long-term capital gains (collectively, “Undistributed Income”) on a tax basis. In order to avoid paying federal income taxes on such Undistributed Income, on June 24, 2015 we declared a special distribution of $1.80 per common share (a total special distribution of $39.0 million). See Note 2 — Significant Accounting Policies and Note 6 — Taxes.

Reconciliation of NDI to GAAP

The difference between distributions and other income from investments in the NDI calculation and total investment income as reported in our Statement of Operations is reconciled as follows:

 

   

GAAP recognizes that a significant portion of the cash distributions received from MLPs is characterized as a return of capital and therefore excluded from investment income, whereas the NDI calculation includes the return of capital portion of such distributions.

 

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NDI includes the value of paid-in-kind dividends and distributions whereas such amounts are not included as investment income for GAAP purposes, but rather are recorded as unrealized gains upon receipt.

 

   

NDI includes commitment fees from PIPE investments, whereas such amounts are generally not included in investment income for GAAP purposes, but rather are recorded as a reduction to the cost of the investment.

 

   

Certain of our investments in debt securities were purchased at a discount or premium to the par value of such security. When making such investments, we consider the security’s yield to maturity, which factors in the impact of such discount (or premium). Interest income reported under GAAP includes the non-cash accretion of the discount (or amortization of the premium) based on the effective interest method. When we calculate interest income for purposes of determining NDI, in order to better reflect the yield to maturity, the accretion of the discount (or amortization of the premium) is calculated on a straight-line basis to the earlier of the expected call date or the maturity date of the debt security.

 

   

We may sell covered call option contracts to generate income or to reduce our ownership of certain securities that we hold. In some cases, we are able to repurchase these call option contracts at a price less than the call premium that we received, thereby generating a profit. The premium we receive from selling call options, less (i) the amount that we pay to repurchase such call option contracts and (ii) the amount by which the market price of an underlying security is above the strike price at the time a new call option is written (if any), is included in NDI. For GAAP purposes, premiums received from call option contracts sold are not included in investment income. See Note 2 — Significant Accounting Policies for a full discussion of the GAAP treatment of option contracts.

The treatment of expenses included in NDI also differs from what is reported in the Statement of Operations as follows:

 

   

The non-cash amortization or write-offs of capitalized debt issuance costs and preferred stock offering costs related to our financings is included in interest expense and distributions on preferred stock for GAAP purposes, but is excluded from our calculation of NDI.

 

   

NDI also includes recurring payments (or receipts) on interest rate swap contracts or the amortization of termination payments on interest rate swap contracts entered into in anticipation of an offering of unsecured notes (“Notes”) or mandatory redeemable preferred shares (“MRP Shares”). The termination payments on interest rate swap contracts are amortized over the term of the Notes or MRP Shares issued. For GAAP purposes, these amounts are included in the realized gains/losses section of the Statement of Operations.

 

   

Under GAAP, excise taxes are accrued when probable and estimable. For NDI, we have adjusted the second quarter of fiscal 2015 by removing the $0.1 million of excise tax as this related to tax on undistributed income accumulated prior to fiscal 2015. See Note 6 — Taxes.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

At May 31, 2015, we had total leverage outstanding of $368 million, which represented 31% of total assets and was comprised of $235 million of Notes, $105 million of MRP Shares and $28 million outstanding under our unsecured revolving term loan (“Term Loan”). At May 31, 2015, we did not have any borrowings outstanding under our unsecured revolving credit facility (the “Credit Facility”). As of July 27, 2015, we had no borrowings outstanding under either our Credit Facility or Term Loan, and we had $4 million of cash.

 

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Our Credit Facility has a total commitment of $105 million and matures on November 21, 2016. The interest rate on outstanding loan balances may vary between LIBOR plus 1.50% and LIBOR plus 2.15%, depending on our asset coverage ratios. Outstanding loan balances accrue interest daily at a rate equal to LIBOR plus 1.50% based on current asset coverage ratios. We pay a fee of 0.25% per annum on any unused amounts of the Credit Facility.

Our Term Loan has a total commitment of $50 million and matures on July 25, 2019. Borrowings under the Term Loan accrue interest at a rate of LIBOR plus 1.30%. We pay a fee of 0.25% per annum on any unused amount of the Term Loan.

At May 31, 2015, we had $235 million of Notes outstanding that mature between 2016 and 2023, and we had $105 million of MRP Shares outstanding, that are subject to mandatory redemption in 2018, 2020 and 2021.

At May 31, 2015, our asset coverage ratios under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), were 442% for debt and 316% for total leverage (debt plus preferred stock). Our long-term target asset coverage ratio with respect to our debt is 400%, but at times we may be above or below our target depending on market conditions.

As of May 31, 2015, our total leverage consisted of both fixed rate (92%) and floating rate (8%) obligations. At such date, the weighted average interest/dividend rate on our total leverage was 3.96%.

 

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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

PORTFOLIO SUMMARY

(UNAUDITED)

 

Portfolio of Long-Term Investments by Category(1)

 

May 31, 2015   November 30, 2014
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Top 10 Holdings by Issuer

 

            Percent of Long-Term
Investments as of
Holding    Sector(1)      May 31,
2015
     November 30,
2014

  1.  Kinder Morgan, Inc.

   Midstream Company          10.9 %          15.4 %

  2.  The Williams Companies, Inc.(3)

   Midstream Company          8.0            8.2  

  3.  Enbridge Energy Management, L.L.C.

   Midstream MLP(2)          7.9            8.1  

  4.  Plains GP Holdings, L.P.(4)

   Midstream Company          5.9            4.7  

  5.  Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.(5)

   Midstream MLP          4.9            2.2  

  6.  ONEOK, Inc.

   Midstream Company          3.2            3.8  

  7.  Golar LNG Partners LP

   Midstream Company          2.3            3.3  

  8.  Targa Resources Corp.

   Midstream Company          2.3            0.2  

  9.  Dynagas LNG Partners LP

   Midstream Company          2.1            1.7  

10.  Enterprise Products Partners L.P.

   Midstream MLP          2.0            1.2  

 

(1) See Glossary of Key Terms for definitions.

 

(2) Includes MLP Affiliates.

 

(3) On May 13, 2015, The Williams Companies, Inc. (“WMB”) announced the acquisition of Williams Partners L.P. (“WPZ”). Subsequent to this announcement, WMB received an unsolicited acquisition proposal that was conditioned upon the termination of the agreement between WPZ and WMB. On June 21, 2015, WMB announced that it is exploring a range of strategic alternatives. As a result, closing of WMB’s acquisition of WPZ is not certain. At May 31, 2015, we owned $5.9 million of WPZ representing 0.5% of long-term investments.

 

(4) We hold an interest in Plains AAP, L.P. (“PAA GP”), which controls the general partner of Plains All American, L.P. Our ownership of PAA GP is exchangeable into shares of Plains GP Holdings, L.P. (“Plains GP” which trades on the NYSE under the ticker “PAGP”) on a one-for-one basis at the Fund’s option. The amounts shown in the table include our current holding of shares of Plains GP as well as our interest in PAA GP.

 

(5) On April 30, 2015, Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (“ETP”) completed its merger with Regency Energy Partners LP (“RGP”). As of November 30, 2014, our investments in ETP and RGP represented 5.3% of long-term investments on a combined basis.

 

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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS

MAY 31, 2015

(amounts in 000’s, except numbers of option contracts)

(UNAUDITED)

 

Description

  

 

  

 

   No. of
Shares/Units
     Value  

Long-Term Investments — 146.3%

           

Equity Investments(1) — 129.4%

           

United States — 122.9%

           

Midstream Company(2) — 66.3%

           

Capital Product Partners L.P.(3)

     827       $ 7,531   

Capital Products Partners L.P. — Class B Units(3)(4)(5)

     606         6,006   

Dynagas LNG Partners LP(3)

     1,296         24,749   

EnLink Midstream, LLC

     130         4,311   

GasLog Partners LP(3)

     204         5,202   

Golar LNG Partners LP(3)

     967         27,276   

Höegh LNG Partners LP(3)

     293         6,739   

Kinder Morgan, Inc.

     3,054         126,703   

Kirby Corporation(6)(7)

     20         1,534   

KNOT Offshore Partners LP(3)

     839         19,800   

NiSource Inc.(6)

     358         16,905   

ONEOK, Inc.(6)

     885         37,092   

Plains GP Holdings, L.P.(3)(8)

     617         17,243   

Plains GP Holdings, L.P.(3)(8)(9)

     1,836         51,342   

SemGroup Corporation(6)

     102         8,027   

Spectra Energy Corp.

     168         5,908   

Tallgrass Energy GP, LP(3)(10)

     226         7,246   

Targa Resources Corp.(6)

     292         26,849   

Teekay Corporation(6)

     193         8,862   

Teekay Offshore Partners L.P.(3)

     602         13,463   

VTTI Energy Partners LP(3)

     393         10,172   

The Williams Companies, Inc.(6)(11)

     1,816         92,794   
           

 

 

 
              525,754   
           

 

 

 

Midstream MLP(2)(12) — 46.4%

           

Antero Midstream Partners LP

     131         3,739   

Arc Logistics Partners LP

     82         1,497   

Arc Logistics Partners LP — Unregistered(4)

     402         6,931   

Buckeye Partners, L.P.

     152         11,750   

Columbia Pipeline Partners LP

     68         1,826   

Crestwood Midstream Partners LP(13)

     892         11,977   

CSI Compressco LP

     22         428   

DCP Midstream Partners, LP

     384         14,520   

Enbridge Energy Management, L.L.C.(14)(15)

     2,527         91,326   

Energy Transfer Equity, L.P.

     89         6,132   

Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.(16)

     1,014         57,044   

EnLink Midstream Partners, LP

     511         12,692   

Enterprise Products Partners L.P.(16)

     718         23,278   

EQT Midstream Partners, LP

     18         1,506   

Exterran Partners, L.P.

     264         6,822   

Global Partners LP

     266         11,073   

Holly Energy Partners, L.P.

     144         4,843   

Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P.

     25         1,993   

MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P.(8)(17)

     239         15,422   

Midcoast Energy Partners, L.P.

     138         1,682   

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS

MAY 31, 2015

(amounts in 000’s, except numbers of option contracts)

(UNAUDITED)

 

Description

             No. of
Shares/Units
     Value  

Midstream MLP(2)(12) (continued)

           

ONEOK Partners, L.P.(6)

     446       $ 17,407   

Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.(8)

     405         19,034   

Rose Rock Midstream, L.P.

     26         1,317   

Shell Midstream Partners, L.P.

     105         4,728   

Shell Midstream Partners, L.P. — Unregistered(4)

     128         5,490   

Summit Midstream Partners, LP

     77         2,593   

Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P.

     89         3,540   

Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP

     59         2,925   

Targa Resources Partners LP

     216         9,346   

USD Partners LP

     119         1,604   

Western Gas Partners, LP

     110         7,525   

Williams Partners L.P.(6)(11)

     105         5,884   
           

 

 

 
              367,874   
           

 

 

 

Other Energy Company — 7.2%

           

Abengoa Yield plc

     258         9,918   

Enduro Royalty Trust

     95         435   

HollyFrontier Corporation(6)

     125         5,210   

Marathon Petroleum Corporation(6)

     58         6,021   

NRG Yield, Inc. — Class A

     58         1,545   

NRG Yield, Inc. — Class C

     58         1,578   

Phillips 66(6)

     149         11,813   

Seadrill Partners LLC(3)

     356         4,903   

Sempra Energy(6)

     31         3,321   

TerraForm Power, Inc.

     42         1,677   

Tesoro Corporation(6)

     66         5,841   

Valero Energy Corporation(6)

     86         5,095   
           

 

 

 
              57,357   
           

 

 

 

Other — 2.5%

           

Macquarie Infrastructure Company LLC

     139         11,790   

Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. — 8.625% Series H Preferred Shares

     96         1,905   

Seaspan Corporation — 7.95% Series D Preferred Shares

     177         4,575   

Seaspan Corporation — 8.25% Series E Preferred Shares

     80         2,021   
           

 

 

 
              20,291   
           

 

 

 

Other MLP(12) — 0.5%

           

Suncoke Energy Partners, L.P.

     177         3,805   
           

 

 

 

Total United States (Cost — $715,446)

  

     975,081   
           

 

 

 

Canada — 6.5%

           

Midstream Company(2) — 5.8%

           

AltaGas Ltd.

     404         12,883   

Enbridge Inc.

     345         16,547   

Gibson Energy Inc.(16)

     123         2,376   

Inter Pipeline Ltd.

     160         3,973   

Pembina Pipeline Corporation

     206         6,647   

TransCanada Corporation

     82         3,561   
           

 

 

 
              45,987   
           

 

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS

MAY 31, 2015

(amounts in 000’s, except numbers of option contracts)

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Description

                No. of
Shares/Units
     Value  

Other Energy Company — 0.7%

  

 

ARC Resources Ltd.(16)

  

     91       $ 1,661   

Baytex Energy Corp.

  

     94         1,597   

Crescent Point Energy Corp.(16)

  

     86         1,941   
          

 

 

 
          5,199   
          

 

 

 

Total Canada (Cost — $55,775)

  

     51,186   
          

 

 

 

Total Equity Investments (Cost — $771,221)

  

     1,026,267   
          

 

 

 
          
      Interest
Rate
    Maturity
Date
     Principal
Amount
     Value  

Debt Instruments — 16.9%

          

United States — 16.3%

          

Upstream — 15.2%

          

American Eagle Energy Corporation(7)(18)

     11.000     9/1/19       $ 4,800         1,800   

American Energy-Woodford LLC

     9.000        9/15/22         1,500         733   

BlackBrush Oil & Gas, L.P.

     (19)        7/30/21         13,300         12,535   

California Resources Corporation(20)

     6.000        11/15/24         7,500         6,937   

Canbriam Energy Inc.

     9.750        11/15/19         3,880         3,996   

Chief Oil & Gas LLC

     (21)        8/8/21         7,609         7,380   

Comstock Resources, Inc.

     10.000        3/15/20         5,000         4,850   

Endeavor Energy Resources, LP

     8.125        9/15/23         6,250         6,516   

Endeavor Energy Resources, LP

     7.000        8/15/21         2,100         2,105   

Energy & Exploration Partners, Inc.

     (22)        1/22/19         995         866   

Goodrich Petroleum Corporation

     8.875        3/15/19         6,950         3,510   

Halcón Resources Corporation

     9.750        7/15/20         10,500         7,639   

Jonah Energy LLC

     (23)        5/29/21         3,000         2,857   

Jones Energy, Inc.

     9.250        3/15/23         5,000         5,344   

Jupiter Resources Inc.

     8.500        10/1/22         10,000         8,450   

Magnum Hunter Resources Corporation

     9.750        5/15/20         13,900         12,058   

Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc.

     10.750        10/1/20         3,500         1,680   

Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc.

     9.250        6/1/21         6,750         3,130   

Resolute Energy Corporation

     8.500        5/1/20         4,900         2,989   

RKI Exploration & Production, LLC

     8.500        8/1/21         14,605         14,605   

Teine Energy Ltd.

     6.875        9/30/22         2,500         2,469   

Triangle USA Petroleum Corporation

     6.750        7/15/22         800         680   

Vantage Energy, LLC

     (24)        12/31/18         8,907         7,928   
          

 

 

 
             121,057   
          

 

 

 

Midstream Company(2) — 0.4%

          

Stonewall Gas Gathering LLC

     (25)        1/26/22         3,491         3,535   
          

 

 

 

Other — 0.7%

          

Navios Maritime Holdings, Inc.

     7.375        1/15/22         2,500         2,294   

Peabody Energy Corporation

     10.000        3/15/22         4,000         3,080   
          

 

 

 
             5,374   
          

 

 

 

Total United States (Cost — $151,454)

  

     129,966   
          

 

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS

MAY 31, 2015

(amounts in 000’s, except numbers of option contracts)

(UNAUDITED)

 

Description

   Interest
Rate
    Maturity
Date
     Principal
Amount
    Value  

Canada — 0.6%

         

Upstream — 0.6%

         

Athabasca Oil Corporation (Cost — $4,685)

     7.500     11/19/17         (26)      $ 4,647   
         

 

 

 

Total Debt Investments (Cost — $156,139)

  

    134,613   
         

 

 

 

Total Long-Term Investments (Cost — $927,360)

  

    1,160,880   
         

 

 

 
         
      Strike
Price
    Expiration
Date
     No. of
Contracts
    Value  

Call Option Contracts Written(7)

         

United States

         

Midstream Company

         

Kirby Corporation

   $ 85.00        6/19/15         100        (3

Kirby Corporation

     90.00        6/19/15         100        (2

NiSource Inc.

     45.00        6/19/15         200        (56

NiSource Inc.

     46.00        6/19/15         200        (35

ONEOK, Inc.

     50.00        6/19/15         150        (2

ONEOK, Inc.

     52.50        6/19/15         150        (1

SemGroup Corporation

     85.00        6/19/15         250        (7

SemGroup Corporation

     90.00        6/19/15         125        (3

Targa Resources Corp.

     105.00        6/19/15         375        (10

Targa Resources Corp.

     110.00        6/19/15         250        (5

Targa Resources Corp.

     115.00        6/19/15         125        (2

Teekay Corporation

     50.00        6/19/15         530        (16

Teekay Corporation

     52.50        6/19/15         210        (5

Teekay Corporation

     55.00        6/19/15         130        (3

The Williams Companies, Inc.

     55.00        6/19/15         1,300        (7
         

 

 

 
            (157
         

 

 

 

Midstream MLP

         

ONEOK Partners, L.P.

     45.00        6/19/15         500        (10

Williams Partners L.P.

     50.00        6/19/15         53        (32

Williams Partners L.P.

     55.00        6/19/15         500        (92

Williams Partners L.P.

     60.00        6/19/15         500        (3
         

 

 

 
            (137
         

 

 

 

Other Energy Company

         

HollyFrontier Corporation

     41.50        6/19/15         300        (34

HollyFrontier Corporation

     42.50        6/19/15         750        (60

Marathon Petroleum Corporation

     105.00        6/19/15         450        (90

Marathon Petroleum Corporation

     109.00        6/19/15         125        (11

Phillips 66

     82.50        6/19/15         125        (6

Phillips 66

     82.50        7/17/15         850        (98

Phillips 66

     85.00        6/19/15         125        (2

Sempra Energy

     110.00        6/19/15         90        (6

Sempra Energy

     115.00        6/19/15         40        (1

Tesoro Corporation

     95.00        6/19/15         110        (6

Tesoro Corporation

     95.50        6/19/15         110        (5

Tesoro Corporation

     97.00        6/19/15         110        (4

Tesoro Corporation

     97.50        6/19/15         110        (3

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS

MAY 31, 2015

(amounts in 000’s, except numbers of option contracts)

(UNAUDITED)

 

Description

   Strike
Price
     Expiration
Date
     No. of
Contracts
     Value  

Other Energy Company (continued)

           

Tesoro Corporation

   $ 100.00         6/19/15         110       $ (2

Valero Energy Corporation

     60.00         6/19/15         380         (43

Valero Energy Corporation

     62.50         6/19/15         380         (15

Valero Energy Corporation

     65.00         6/19/15         100         (1
           

 

 

 
              (387
           

 

 

 

Total Call Option Contracts Written (Premiums Received — $1,106)

  

     (681
           

 

 

 

Debt

  

     (263,000

Mandatory Redeemable Preferred Stock at Liquidation Value

  

     (105,000

Other Assets in Excess of Other Liabilities

  

     1,043   
           

 

 

 

Net Assets Applicable to Common Stockholders

  

   $ 793,242   
           

 

 

 

 

  (1) Unless otherwise noted, equity investments are common units/common shares.

 

  (2) Refer to the “Glossary of Key Terms” (page 41) for the definitions of Midstream Companies and Midstream MLPs.

 

  (3) This company is structured like an MLP, but is not treated as a publicly-traded partnership for RIC qualification purposes.

 

  (4) Fair valued security, restricted from public sale. See Notes 2, 3 and 7 in Notes to Financial Statements.

 

  (5) Class B Units are convertible on a one-for-one basis into common units of Capital Product Partners L.P. (“CPLP”) and are senior to the common units in terms of liquidation preference and priority of distributions. The Class B Units pay quarterly cash distributions and are convertible at any time at the option of the holder. When CPLP increases the quarterly cash distribution per common unit, the distribution per Class B Unit will increase by an equal amount. The Class B Units paid a distribution of $0.21575 per unit for the second quarter of fiscal 2015. If CPLP does not redeem the Class B Units by May 2022, then the distribution increases by 25% per quarter to a maximum of $0.33345 per unit. CPLP may require that the Class B Units convert into common units after May 2015 if the common unit price exceeds $11.70 per unit, and the Class B Units are callable after May 2017 at a price of $9.27 per unit and after May 2019 at $9.00 per unit.

 

  (6) Security or a portion thereof is segregated as collateral on option contracts written.

 

  (7) Security is non-income producing.

 

  (8) The Fund believes that it is an affiliate of MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P., Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. and Plains GP Holdings, L.P. (“Plains GP”). See Note 5 — Agreements and Affiliations.

 

  (9) The Fund holds an interest in Plains AAP, L.P. (“PAA GP”), which controls the general partner of Plains All American, L.P. The Fund’s ownership of PAA GP is exchangeable into shares of Plains GP (which trades on the NYSE under the ticker “PAGP”) on a one-for-one basis at the Fund’s option. See Notes 3 and 7 in Notes to Financial Statements.

 

(10) Security is not currently paying cash distributions but is expected to pay cash distributions within the next 12 months.

 

(11) On May 13, 2015, The Williams Companies, Inc. (“WMB”) announced the acquisition of Williams Partners L.P. (“WPZ”) in a stock-for-unit transaction. Under the terms of the agreement, each WPZ unitholder will receive 1.115 WMB common shares for each WPZ unit that they own. Subsequent to this announcement, WMB received an unsolicited acquisition proposal that was conditioned upon the

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS

MAY 31, 2015

(amounts in 000’s, except numbers of option contracts)

(UNAUDITED)

 

  termination of the agreement between WPZ and WMB. On June 21, 2015, WMB announced that it is exploring a range of strategic alternatives. As a result, closing of WMB’s acquisition of WPZ is not certain.

 

(12) Unless otherwise noted, securities are treated as a publicly-traded partnership for regulated investment company (“RIC”) qualification purposes. To qualify as a RIC for tax purposes, the Fund may directly invest up to 25% of its total assets in equity and debt securities of entities treated as publicly-traded partnerships. The Fund had 23.8% of its total assets invested in publicly-traded partnerships at May 31, 2015. It is the Fund’s intention to be treated as a RIC for tax purposes.

 

(13) On May 6, 2015, Crestwood Midstream Partners LP (“CMLP”) entered into a definitive merger agreement with Crestwood Equity Partners LP (“CEQP”). Under the terms of the agreement, CMLP unitholders will receive 2.75 units of CEQP for each CMLP unit that they own. The merger is expected to close in the third quarter of 2015.

 

(14) Dividends are paid-in-kind.

 

(15) Security is not treated as a publicly-traded partnership for RIC qualification purposes.

 

(16) In lieu of cash distributions, the Fund has elected to receive distributions in additional units/stock through the issuer’s dividend reinvestment program.

 

(17) On July 13, 2015, MPLX LP (“MPLX”) and MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P. (“MWE”) announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement whereby MWE would become a wholly owned subsidiary of MPLX. Under the terms of the agreement, common unitholders of MWE will receive 1.09 MPLX common units and a cash payment of approximately $3.37 for each MWE common unit they own. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2015.

 

(18) On May 8, 2015, American Eagle Corporation (“American Eagle”) filed voluntary petitions in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado seeking relief under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code. On April 2, 2015, American Eagle made a partial interest payment to its noteholders, and the Fund received $110 as its share of the partial interest payment. As of February 28, 2015, the Fund had $270 of accrued interest income, and accordingly, the Fund established a $160 reserve during the second quarter against the portion of the accrued interest income that exceeded the partial interest payment. The Fund is no longer accruing interest income related to its investment in American Eagle.

 

(19) Floating rate second lien secured term loan. Security pays interest at a rate of LIBOR + 650 basis points with a 1.00% LIBOR floor (7.50% as of May 31, 2015).

 

(20) Robert V. Sinnott is Chief Executive Officer of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P., the managing member of the Fund’s investment adviser. Mr. Sinnott also serves as a director of California Resources Corporation (“CRC”). The Fund does not believe that it is an affiliate of CRC.

 

(21) Floating rate second lien secured term loan. Security pays interest at a rate of LIBOR + 650 basis points with a 1.00% LIBOR floor (7.50% as of May 31, 2015).

 

(22) Floating rate second lien secured term loan. Security pays interest at a rate of LIBOR + 675 basis points with a 1.00% LIBOR floor (7.75% as of May 31, 2015).

 

(23) Floating rate second lien secured term loan. Security pays interest at a rate of LIBOR + 650 basis points with a 1.00% LIBOR floor (7.50% as of May 31, 2015).

 

(24) Floating rate second lien secured term loan. Security pays interest at a rate of LIBOR + 750 basis points with a 1.00% LIBOR floor (8.50% as of May 31, 2015).

 

(25) Floating rate first lien secured term loan. Security pays interest at a rate of LIBOR + 775 basis points with a 1.00% LIBOR floor (8.75% as of May 31, 2015).

 

(26) Principal amount is 6,350 Canadian dollars.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

MAY 31, 2015

(amounts in 000’s, except share and per share amounts)

(UNAUDITED)

 

ASSETS

  

Investments, at fair value:

  

Non-affiliated (Cost — $884,139)

   $ 1,057,839   

Affiliated (Cost — $43,221)

     103,041   
  

 

 

 

Total investments (Cost — $927,360)

     1,160,880   

Cash

     1,456   

Deposits with brokers

     248   

Receivable for securities sold

     8,694   

Interest, dividends and distributions receivable (Cost — $3,478)

     3,477   

Deferred debt and preferred stock offering costs and other assets

     3,219   
  

 

 

 

Total Assets

     1,177,974   
  

 

 

 

LIABILITIES

  

Payable for securities purchased

     10,620   

Investment management fee payable

     1,251   

Call option contracts written (Premiums received — $1,106)

     681   

Accrued directors’ fees and expenses

     96   

Accrued excise taxes

     124   

Accrued expenses and other liabilities

     3,960   

Term loan

     28,000   

Notes

     235,000   

Mandatory redeemable preferred stock, $25.00 liquidation value per share (4,200,000 shares issued and outstanding)

     105,000   
  

 

 

 

Total Liabilities

     384,732   
  

 

 

 

NET ASSETS APPLICABLE TO COMMON STOCKHOLDERS

   $ 793,242   
  

 

 

 

NET ASSETS APPLICABLE TO COMMON STOCKHOLDERS CONSIST OF

  

Common stock, $0.001 par value (22,141,297 shares issued, 21,663,136 shares outstanding and 195,800,000 shares authorized)

   $ 22   

Paid-in capital

     508,856   

Accumulated net investment income less distributions not treated as tax return of capital

     (35,771

Accumulated net realized gains less distributions not treated as tax return of capital

     86,207   

Net unrealized gains

     233,928   
  

 

 

 

NET ASSETS APPLICABLE TO COMMON STOCKHOLDERS

   $ 793,242   
  

 

 

 

NET ASSET VALUE PER COMMON SHARE

   $ 36.62   
  

 

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

(amounts in 000’s)

(UNAUDITED)

 

      For the Three
Months  Ended
May 31, 2015
    For the Six
Months  Ended
May 31, 2015
 

INVESTMENT INCOME

    

Income

    

Dividends and distributions:

    

Non-affiliated investments

   $ 11,768      $ 23,745   

Affiliated investments

     1,096        2,143   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total dividends and distributions (after foreign taxes withheld of $79 and $157, respectively)

     12,864        25,888   

Return of capital

     (5,512     (11,209
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net dividends and distributions

     7,352        14,679   

Interest and other income

     3,168        5,930   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investment Income

     10,520        20,609   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Expenses

    

Investment management fees

     3,671        7,231   

Professional fees

     121        238   

Directors’ fees and expenses

     107        196   

Administration fees

     74        146   

Insurance

     37        81   

Reports to stockholders

     9        44   

Custodian fees

     19        37   

Other expenses

     47        88   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Expenses — before interest expense, preferred distributions and excise taxes

     4,085        8,061   

Interest expense and amortization of offering costs

     2,701        5,377   

Distributions on mandatory redeemable preferred stock and amortization of offering costs

     1,261        2,521   

Excise taxes

     104        2,404   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Expenses

     8,151        18,363   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

     2,369        2,246   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAINS (LOSSES)

    

Net Realized Gains

    

Investments — non-affiliated

     21,935        14,604   

Investments — affiliated

     883        883   

Foreign currency transactions

     (1     (17

Options

     1,722        2,884   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Realized Gains

     24,539        18,354   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Change in Unrealized Gains

    

Investments — non-affiliated

     (18,209     (64,160

Investments — affiliated

     (3,090     2,933   

Foreign currency translations

     (4     (5

Options

     1,339        2   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Change in Unrealized Gains

     (19,964     (61,230
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses)

     4,575        (42,876
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

NET INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS APPLICABLE TO COMMON STOCKHOLDERS RESULTING FROM OPERATIONS

   $ 6,944      $ (40,630
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS APPLICABLE TO COMMON STOCKHOLDERS

(amounts in 000’s, except share amounts)

 

      For the Six
Months Ended
May 31,
2015
(Unaudited)
    For the Fiscal
Year Ended
November 30,
2014
 

OPERATIONS

    

Net investment income (loss)(1)

   $ 2,246      $ (231

Net realized gains

     18,354        76,869   

Net change in unrealized gains

     (61,230     48,057   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

     (40,630     124,695   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

DIVIDENDS AND DISTRIBUTIONS TO COMMON STOCKHOLDERS(1)

    

Dividends

     (21,589 )(2)      (34,315 )(3) 

Distributions — net long-term capital gains

       (2)      (7,401 )(3) 
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Dividends and Distributions to Common Stockholders

     (21,589     (41,716
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

CAPITAL STOCK TRANSACTIONS

    

Issuance of 41,203 and 97,252 shares of common stock from reinvestment of dividends and distributions, respectively

     1,204        3,220   

Common stock purchased under the share repurchase program (519,364 shares)

            (19,999
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Applicable to Common Stockholders from Capital Stock Transactions

     1,204        (16,779
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Applicable to Common Stockholders

     (61,015     66,200   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

NET ASSETS APPLICABLE TO COMMON STOCKHOLDERS

    

Beginning of period

     854,257        788,057   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

End of period

   $ 793,242      $ 854,257   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(1) Distributions on the Fund’s mandatory redeemable preferred stock (“MRP Shares”) are treated as an operating expense under GAAP and are included in the calculation of net investment loss. See Note 2 — Significant Accounting Policies. The distributions in the amount of $2,418 paid to MRP Shares during the six months ended May 31, 2015 are characterized as dividend income (a portion of which may be eligible to be treated as qualified dividend income) until after the end of the fiscal year when the Fund can determine its earnings and profits for the full fiscal year, which include gains and losses on the sale of securities for the remainder of the fiscal year. The final tax character may differ substantially from this preliminary information. Distributions in the amount of $4,168 paid to holders of MRP Shares for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2014 were characterized as dividends ($3,228) and as long-term capital gains ($940). A portion of the distributions characterized as dividends, for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2014, was eligible to be treated as qualified dividend income. This characterization is based on the Fund’s earnings and profits.

 

(2) The distributions paid to common stockholders for the six months ended May 31, 2015 are characterized as dividend income (a portion of which may be eligible to be treated as qualified dividend income) until after the end of the fiscal year when the Fund can determine its earnings and profits for the full fiscal year, which include gains and losses on the sale of securities for the remainder of the fiscal year. The final tax character may differ substantially from this preliminary information.

 

(3) Distributions paid to common stockholders for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2014, were characterized as either dividends (a portion of which was eligible to be treated as qualified dividend income) or distributions (long-term capital gains or return of capital). This characterization is based on the Fund’s earnings and profits.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS

FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED MAY 31, 2015

(amounts in 000’s)

(UNAUDITED)

 

CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES

  

Net decrease in net assets resulting from operations

   $ (40,630

Adjustments to reconcile net decrease in net assets resulting from operations to net cash provided by operating activities:

  

Return of capital distributions

     11,209   

Net realized gains (excluding foreign currency transactions)

     (18,371

Net change in unrealized gains (excluding foreign currency translations)

     61,225   

Accretion of bond discounts, net

     (142

Purchase of long-term investments

     (312,232

Proceeds from sale of long-term investments

     331,895   

Increase in deposits with brokers

     (4

Increase in receivable for securities sold

     (6,354

Increase in interest, dividends and distributions receivable

     (140

Amortization of deferred debt offering costs

     343   

Amortization of mandatory redeemable preferred stock offering costs

     103   

Decrease in other assets

     804   

Increase in payable for securities purchased

     10,620   

Decrease in investment management fee payable

     (66

Increase in premiums received on call option contracts written

     60   

Increase in accrued directors’ fees and expenses

     44   

Increase in accrued excise taxes

     124   

Decrease in accrued expenses and other liabilities

     (113
  

 

 

 

Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities

     38,375   
  

 

 

 

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES

  

Decrease in borrowings under term loan

     (18,000

Cash distributions paid to common stockholders

     (20,385
  

 

 

 

Net Cash Used in Financing Activities

     (38,385
  

 

 

 

NET DECREASE IN CASH

     (10

CASH — BEGINNING OF PERIOD

     1,466   
  

 

 

 

CASH — END OF PERIOD

   $ 1,456   
  

 

 

 

 

Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:

Non-cash financing activities not included herein consisted of reinvestment of distributions of $1,204 pursuant to the Fund’s dividend reinvestment plan.

During the six months ended May 31, 2015, interest paid was $5,067 and federal excise tax paid was $2,300.

During the six months ended May 31, 2015, the Fund received $5,328 of paid-in-kind and non-cash dividends and distributions. See Note 2 — Significant Accounting Policies.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

(amounts in 000’s, except share and per share amounts)

 

      For the
Six Months
Ended
May 31,
2015
(Unaudited)
    For the Fiscal Year Ended November 30,     For the
Period
November 24,
2010(1)
through
November 30,
2010
 
        2014     2013     2012     2011    

Per Share of Common Stock(2)

            

Net asset value, beginning of period

   $ 39.51      $ 35.75      $ 29.01      $ 25.94      $ 23.80      $ 23.83 (3) 

Net investment income (loss)(4)

     0.10        (0.01     (0.06     0.17        0.29        (0.02

Net realized and unrealized gains (losses)

     (1.98     5.61        8.61        4.64        3.12        (0.01
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total income (loss) from operations

     (1.88     5.60        8.55        4.81        3.41        (0.03
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Common dividends — dividend income(5)

     (1.00     (1.57     (1.15     (1.30     (1.20       

Common distributions — long-term capital gains(5)

            (0.34     (0.66     (0.41              

Common distributions — return of capital(5)

                                          
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total dividends and distributions — common

     (1.00     (1.91     (1.81     (1.71     (1.20       
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Effect of shares issued in reinvestment of distributions

     (0.01     (0.02            (0.03     (0.04       

Effect of issuance of common stock

                                 (0.03       

Effect of common stock repurchased

            0.09                               
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net asset value, end of period

   $ 36.62      $ 39.51      $ 35.75      $ 29.01      $ 25.94      $ 23.80   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Market value per share of common stock, end of period

   $ 32.72      $ 35.82      $ 32.71      $ 28.04      $ 22.46      $ 25.00   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total investment return based on common stock market value(6)

     (5.8 )%(7)      15.3     23.5     33.3     (5.5 )%      0.0 %(7) 

Total investment return based on net asset value(8)

     (4.4 )%(7)      16.4     30.5     19.4     14.7     (0.1 )%(7) 

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

(amounts in 000’s, except share and per share amounts)

 

     For the
Six Months
Ended
May 31,
2015
(Unaudited)
    For the Fiscal Year Ended November 30,     For the
Period
November 24,
2010(1)
through
November 30,
2010
 
       2014     2013     2012     2011    

Supplemental Data and Ratios(9)

           

Net assets applicable to common stockholders, end of period

  $ 793,242      $ 854,257      $ 788,057      $ 635,226      $ 562,044      $ 452,283   

Ratio of expenses to average net assets

           

Management fees(10)

    1.8     1.7     1.8     1.7     1.6     1.3

Other expenses

    0.2        0.2        0.2        0.3        0.3        0.3 (11) 
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Subtotal

    2.0        1.9        2.0        2.0        1.9        1.6   

Interest expense and distributions on mandatory redeemable preferred stock(4)

    2.0        1.7        1.8        1.8        1.3          

Management fee waiver

                                (0.3     (0.3

Excise taxes

    0.3 (7)             0.1                        
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total expenses

    4.3     3.6     3.9     3.8     2.9     1.3
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets(4)

    0.9 %(11)      (0.0 )%      (0.2 )%      0.6     1.1     (1.3 )%(12) 

Net increase (decrease) in net assets applicable to common stockholders resulting from operations to average net assets

    (5.1 )%(7)      14.0     25.9     16.8     13.4     (0.1 )%(7) 

Portfolio turnover rate

    26.8 %(7)      45.3     49.1 %      67.6     74.1     0.0 %(7) 

Average net assets

  $ 799,049      $ 887,585      $ 726,248      $ 620,902      $ 537,044      $ 452,775   

Notes outstanding, end of period

    235,000        235,000        205,000        165,000        115,000          

Credit facility outstanding, end of period

                  50,000        48,000        45,000          

Term loan outstanding, end of period

    28,000        46,000                               

Mandatory redeemable preferred stock, end of period

    105,000        105,000        65,000        65,000        35,000          

Average shares of common stock outstanding

    21,652,722        21,897,671        21,969,288        21,794,596        21,273,512        19,004,000   

Asset coverage of total debt(13)

    441.5     441.4     434.5     428.7     473.2       

Asset coverage of total leverage (debt and preferred stock)(14)

    315.6     321.3     346.3     328.5     388.2       

Average amount of borrowings per share of common stock during the period(2)

  $ 12.20      $ 12.84      $ 10.51      $ 8.85      $ 6.50          

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

(amounts in 000’s, except share and per share amounts)

 

 

 

  (1) Commencement of operations.

 

  (2) Based on average shares of common stock outstanding.

 

  (3) Initial public offering price of $25.00 per share less underwriting discounts of $1.125 per share and offering costs of $0.05 per share.

 

  (4) Distributions on the Fund’s MRP Shares are treated as an operating expense under GAAP and are included in the calculation of net investment income (loss). See Note 2 — Significant Accounting Policies.

 

  (5) The actual characterization of the distributions made during the six months ended May 31, 2015 will not be determinable until after the end of the fiscal year when the Fund can determine its actual earnings and profits for the full fiscal year (which include gains and losses on the sale of securities for the remainder of the fiscal year) and may differ substantially from this preliminary information. The information presented for each of the other periods is a characterization of the total distributions paid to the common stockholders as either dividend income (a portion of which was eligible to be treated as qualified dividend income) or distributions (long-term capital gains or return of capital) and is based on the Fund’s earnings and profits.

 

  (6) Total investment return based on market value is calculated assuming a purchase of common stock at the market price on the first day and a sale at the current market price on the last day of the period reported. The calculation also assumes reinvestment of distributions at actual prices pursuant to the Fund’s dividend reinvestment plan.

 

  (7) Not annualized.

 

  (8) Not audited. Total investment return based on net asset value is calculated assuming a purchase of common stock at the net asset value on the first day and a sale at the net asset value on the last day of the period reported. The calculation also assumes reinvestment of distributions at actual prices pursuant to the Fund’s dividend reinvestment plan.

 

  (9) Unless otherwise noted, ratios are annualized.

 

(10) Ratio reflects total management fee before waiver.

 

(11) For purposes of annualizing the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets, excise taxes have not been annualized.

 

(12) For purposes of annualizing other expenses of the Fund, professional fees and reports to stockholders are fees associated with the annual audit and annual report and therefore have not been annualized.

 

(13) Calculated pursuant to section 18(a)(1)(A) of the 1940 Act. Represents the value of total assets less all liabilities not represented by unsecured notes (“Notes”) or any other senior securities representing indebtedness and MRP Shares divided by the aggregate amount of Notes and any other senior securities representing indebtedness. Under the 1940 Act, the Fund may not declare or make any distribution on its common stock nor can it incur additional indebtedness if at the time of such declaration or incurrence its asset coverage with respect to senior securities representing indebtedness would be less than 300%. For purposes of this test, the Credit Facility and the Term Loan are considered senior securities representing indebtedness.

 

(14) Calculated pursuant to section 18(a)(2)(A) of the 1940 Act. Represents the value of total assets less all liabilities not represented by Notes, any other senior securities representing indebtedness and MRP Shares divided by the aggregate amount of Notes, any other senior securities representing indebtedness and MRP Shares. Under the 1940 Act, the Fund may not declare or make any distribution on its common stock nor can it issue additional preferred stock if at the time of such declaration or issuance, its asset coverage with respect to all senior securities would be less than 200%. In addition to the limitations under the 1940 Act, the Fund, under the terms of its MRP Shares, would not be able to declare or pay any distributions on its common stock if such declaration would cause its asset coverage with respect to all senior securities to be less than 225%. For purposes of these asset coverage ratio tests, the Credit Facility and the Term Loan are considered senior securities representing indebtedness.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

1. Organization

Kayne Anderson Midstream/Energy Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”) was organized as a Maryland corporation on August 26, 2010 and commenced operations on November 24, 2010. The Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), as a non-diversified, closed-end investment management company. The Fund’s investment objective is to provide a high level of return with an emphasis on making quarterly cash distributions to its stockholders. The Fund seeks to achieve that investment objective by investing at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of companies in the Midstream/Energy Sector, consisting of (a) Midstream MLPs, (b) Midstream Companies, (c) Other MLPs and (d) Other Energy Companies. The Fund’s shares of common stock are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. (“NYSE”) under the symbol “KMF.”

 

2. Significant Accounting Policies

The following is a summary of the significant accounting policies that the Fund uses to prepare its financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”). The Fund is an investment company and follows accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Topic 946 — “Financial Services — Investment Companies.”

A. Use of Estimates — The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amount of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the period. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates.

B. Cash and Cash Equivalents — Cash and cash equivalents include short-term, liquid investments with an original maturity of three months or less and include money market fund accounts.

C. Calculation of Net Asset Value — The Fund determines its net asset value on a daily basis and reports its net asset value on its website. Prior to March 9, 2015, the Fund reported its net asset value on its website on a weekly basis. Net asset value is computed by dividing the value of the Fund’s assets (including accrued interest and distributions), less all of its liabilities (including accrued expenses, distributions payable and any indebtedness) and the liquidated value of any outstanding preferred stock, by the total number of common shares outstanding.

D. Investment Valuation — Readily marketable portfolio securities listed on any exchange other than the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc. (“NASDAQ”) are valued, except as indicated below, at the last sale price on the business day as of which such value is being determined. If there has been no sale on such day, the securities are valued at the mean of the most recent bid and ask prices on such day. Securities admitted to trade on the NASDAQ are valued at the NASDAQ official closing price. Portfolio securities traded on more than one securities exchange are valued at the last sale price on the business day as of which such value is being determined at the close of the exchange representing the principal market for such securities.

Equity securities traded in the over-the-counter market, but excluding securities admitted to trading on the NASDAQ, are valued at the closing bid prices. Debt securities that are considered bonds are valued by using the mean of the bid and ask prices provided by an independent pricing service. For debt securities that are considered bank loans, the fair market value is determined by using the mean of the bid and ask prices provided by the agent or syndicate bank or principal market maker. When price quotes are not available, fair market value will be based on prices of comparable securities. Any securities for which (a) reliable market quotations are not available in the judgment of KA Fund Advisors, LLC (“KAFA”), or (b) the pricing service does not provide a valuation or provides a valuation that in the judgment of KAFA is stale or does not represent fair value, shall each be valued in a manner that most fairly reflects fair value of the security on the valuation date. In certain cases, the Fund may not be able to purchase or sell debt securities at the quoted prices due to the lack of liquidity for these securities.

 

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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

Exchange-traded options and futures contracts are valued at the last sales price at the close of trading in the market where such contracts are principally traded or, if there was no sale on the applicable exchange on such day, at the mean between the quoted bid and ask price as of the close of such exchange.

The Fund holds securities that are privately issued or otherwise restricted as to resale. For these securities, as well as any other portfolio security held by the Fund for which reliable market quotations are not readily available, valuations are determined in a manner that most accurately reflects fair value of the security on the valuation date. Unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, the following valuation process is used for such securities:

 

   

Investment Team Valuation.    The applicable investments are valued by senior professionals of KAFA who are responsible for the portfolio investments. The investments will be valued monthly, with new investments valued at the time such investment was made.

 

   

Investment Team Valuation Documentation.    Preliminary valuation conclusions will be determined by senior management of KAFA. Such valuations and supporting documentation is submitted to the Valuation Committee (a committee of the Fund’s Board of Directors) and the Board of Directors on a quarterly basis.

 

   

Valuation Committee.    The Valuation Committee meets to consider the valuations submitted by KAFA at the end of each quarter. Between meetings of the Valuation Committee, a senior officer of KAFA is authorized to make valuation determinations. All valuation determinations of the Valuation Committee are subject to ratification by the Board of Directors at its next regular meeting.

 

   

Valuation Firm.    Quarterly, a third-party valuation firm engaged by the Board of Directors reviews the valuation methodologies and calculations employed for these securities, unless the aggregate fair value of such security is less than 0.1% of total assets.

 

   

Board of Directors Determination.    The Board of Directors meets quarterly to consider the valuations provided by KAFA and the Valuation Committee and ratify valuations for the applicable securities. The Board of Directors considers the report provided by the third-party valuation firm in reviewing and determining in good faith the fair value of the applicable portfolio securities.

As of May 31, 2015, the Fund held 2.3% of its net assets applicable to common stockholders (1.6% of total assets) in securities that were fair valued pursuant to the procedures adopted by the Board of Directors. The aggregate fair value of these securities at May 31, 2015 was $18,427. See Note 3 — Fair Value and Note 7 — Restricted Securities.

E. Repurchase Agreements — From time to time, the Fund has agreed to purchase securities from financial institutions subject to the seller’s agreement to repurchase them at an agreed-upon time and price (“repurchase agreements”). The financial institutions with whom the Fund enters into repurchase agreements are banks and broker/dealers which KAFA considers creditworthy. The seller under a repurchase agreement is required to maintain the value of the securities as collateral, subject to the agreement, at not less than the repurchase price plus accrued interest. KAFA monitors daily the mark-to-market of the value of the collateral, and, if necessary, requires the seller to maintain additional securities, so that the value of the collateral is not less than the repurchase price. Default by or bankruptcy of the seller would, however, expose the Fund to possible loss because of adverse market action or delays in connection with the disposition of the underlying securities. As of May 31, 2015, the Fund did not have any repurchase agreements.

F. Short Sales — A short sale is a transaction in which the Fund sells securities it does not own (but has borrowed) in anticipation of or to hedge against a decline in the market price of the securities. To complete a short sale, the Fund may arrange through a broker to borrow the securities to be delivered to the buyer. The proceeds received by the Fund for the short sale are retained by the broker until the Fund replaces the borrowed securities. In borrowing the securities to be delivered to the buyer, the Fund becomes obligated to replace the securities borrowed at their market price at the time of replacement, whatever the price may be.

 

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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

The Fund’s short sales, if any, are fully collateralized. The Fund is required to maintain assets consisting of cash or liquid securities equal in amount to the liability created by the short sale. These assets are adjusted daily to reflect changes in the value of the securities sold short. The Fund is liable for any dividends or distributions paid on securities sold short.

The Fund may also sell short “against the box” (i.e., the Fund enters into a short sale as described above while holding an offsetting long position in the security which it sold short). If the Fund enters into a short sale “against the box,” the Fund would segregate an equivalent amount of securities owned as collateral while the short sale is outstanding. During the three and six months ended May 31, 2015, the Fund did not engage in any short sales.

G. Derivative Financial Instruments — The Fund may utilize derivative financial instruments in its operations.

Interest rate swap contracts. The Fund may use hedging techniques such as interest rate swaps to mitigate potential interest rate risk on a portion of the Fund’s leverage. Such interest rate swaps would principally be used to protect the Fund against higher costs on its leverage resulting from increases in interest rates. The Fund does not hedge any interest rate risk associated with portfolio holdings. Interest rate transactions the Fund uses for hedging purposes expose it to certain risks that differ from the risks associated with its portfolio holdings. A decline in interest rates may result in a decline in the value of the swap contracts, which, everything else being held constant, would result in a decline in the net assets of the Fund. In addition, if the counterparty to an interest rate swap defaults, the Fund would not be able to use the anticipated net receipts under the interest rate swap to offset its cost of financial leverage.

Interest rate swap contracts are recorded at fair value with changes in value during the reporting period, and amounts accrued under the agreements, included as unrealized gains or losses in the Statement of Operations. Monthly cash settlements under the terms of the interest rate swap agreements or termination payments are recorded as realized gains or losses in the Statement of Operations. The Fund generally values its interest rate swap contracts based on dealer quotations, if available, or by discounting the future cash flows from the stated terms of the interest rate swap agreement by using interest rates currently available in the market. See Note 8 —Derivative Financial Instruments.

Option contracts. The Fund is also exposed to financial market risks including changes in the valuations of its investment portfolio. The Fund may purchase or write (sell) call options. A call option on a security is a contract that gives the holder of the option, in return for a premium, the right to buy from the writer of the option the security underlying the option at a specified exercise price at any time during the term of the option.

The Fund would realize a gain on a purchased call option if, during the option period, the value of such securities exceeded the sum of the exercise price, the premium paid and transaction costs; otherwise the Fund would realize either no gain or a loss on the purchased call option. The Fund may also purchase put option contracts. If a purchased put option is exercised, the premium paid increases the cost basis of the securities sold by the Fund.

The Fund may also write (sell) call options with the purpose of generating realized gains or reducing its ownership of certain securities. If the Fund writes a call option on a security, the Fund has the obligation upon exercise of the option to deliver the underlying security upon payment of the exercise price. The Fund will only write call options on securities that the Fund holds in its portfolio (i.e., covered calls).

When the Fund writes a call option, an amount equal to the premium received by the Fund is recorded as a liability and is subsequently adjusted to the current fair value of the option written. Premiums received from writing options that expire unexercised are treated by the Fund on the expiration date as realized gains from investments. If the Fund repurchases a written call option prior to its exercise, the difference between the premium received and the amount paid to repurchase the option is treated as a realized gain or loss. If a call option is exercised, the premium is added to the proceeds from the sale of the underlying security in determining whether

 

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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

the Fund has realized a gain or loss. The Fund, as the writer of an option, bears the market risk of an unfavorable change in the price of the security underlying the written option. See Note 8 — Derivative Financial Instruments.

H. Security Transactions — Security transactions are accounted for on the date these securities are purchased or sold (trade date). Realized gains and losses are calculated using the specific identification cost basis method for GAAP purposes. Since the Fund’s inception, it has also utilized the specific identification cost basis method for tax purposes. On July 13, 2015, the Fund filed a request with the Internal Revenue Service to change the tax accounting method used to compute the adjusted tax cost basis of its MLP securities to the average cost method. The tax accounting method change does not change the accounting method utilized for GAAP purposes. See Note 6 — Taxes.

I. Return of Capital Estimates — Dividends and distributions received from the Fund’s investments are comprised of income and return of capital. The payments made by MLPs (and other entities treated as partnerships for federal income tax purposes) are categorized as “distributions” and payments made by corporations are categorized as “dividends.” At the time such dividends and distributions are received, the Fund estimates the amount of such payments that is considered investment income and the amount that is considered a return of capital. The Fund estimates that 90% of the MLP distributions received will be treated as a return of capital. Such estimates for MLPs and other investments are based on historical information available from each investment and other industry sources. These estimates may subsequently be revised based on information received from investments after their tax reporting periods are concluded.

The return of capital portion of the distributions is a reduction to investment income, an equivalent reduction in the cost basis of the associated investments and an increase to net realized gains (losses) and net change in unrealized gains (losses). If the cash distributions received by the Fund exceed its cost basis (i.e. its cost basis has been reduced to zero), the distributions are treated as realized gains.

The Fund includes all cash distributions received on its Statement of Operations and reduces its investment income by (i) the estimated return of capital and (ii) the distributions in excess of cost basis (if any). For the six months ended May 31, 2015, the Fund had $11,209 of return of capital and there were no cash distributions that were in excess of cost basis.

In accordance with GAAP, the return of capital cost basis reductions for the Fund’s MLP investments are limited to the total amount of the cash distributions received from such investments. For income tax purposes, the cost basis reductions for the Fund’s MLP investments typically exceed cash distributions received from such investments due to allocated losses from these investments.

 

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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

The following tables set forth the Fund’s estimated return of capital portion of the distributions received from its investments.

 

      For the
Three Months
Ended
May 31,
2015
    For the
Six Months
Ended
May 31,
2015
 

Dividends from investments

   $ 7,843      $ 15,761   

Distributions from investments

     5,100        10,284   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total dividends and distributions from investments
(before foreign taxes withheld of $79 and $157, respectively)

   $ 12,943      $ 26,045   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Dividends — % return of capital

     15     14

Distributions — % return of capital

     84     87

Total dividends and distributions — % return of capital

     43     43

Return of capital — attributable to net realized gains (losses)

   $ 2,961      $ 5,567   

Return of capital — attributable to net change in unrealized gains (losses)

     2,551        5,642   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total return of capital

   $ 5,512      $ 11,209   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

J. Investment Income — The Fund records dividends and distributions on the ex-dividend date. Interest income is recognized on the accrual basis, including amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts. When investing in securities with payment in-kind interest, the Fund will accrue interest income during the life of the security even though it will not be receiving cash as the interest is accrued. To the extent that interest income to be received is not expected to be realized, a reserve against income is established. During the first quarter of fiscal 2015, the Fund recorded $270 of accrued interest income related to its investment in American Eagle Corporation (“American Eagle”). During the second quarter of fiscal 2015, the Fund received a partial interest payment of $110 and established a $160 reserve against the portion of the accrued interest income that exceeded this partial payment. Since the end of the first fiscal quarter of 2015, the Fund has not accrued interest income on its investment in American Eagle. For the six months ended May 31, 2015, the Fund did not have any other reserve against interest income, as all interest income accrued is expected to be received.

Many of the debt securities that the Fund holds were purchased at a discount or premium to the par value of the security. The non-cash accretion of a discount to par value increases interest income while the non-cash amortization of a premium to par value decreases interest income. The accretion of a discount and amortization of a premium are based on the effective interest method. The amount of these non-cash adjustments can be found in the Fund’s Statement of Cash Flows. The non-cash accretion of a discount increases the cost basis of the debt security, which results in an offsetting unrealized loss. The non-cash amortization of a premium decreases the cost basis of the debt security, which results in an offsetting unrealized gain. To the extent that par value is not expected to be realized, the Fund discontinues accruing the non-cash accretion of the discount to par value of the debt security.

The Fund receives paid-in-kind and non-cash dividends and distributions in the form of additional units or shares from the investments listed in the table below. In connection with the purchase of units directly from Arc Logistics Partners LP (“ARCX”) in a private investment in public equity (“PIPE investment”) transaction, the Fund was entitled to the distribution paid to unitholders of record on May 11, 2015, even though such investment had not closed at such date. Pursuant to the purchase agreement, the purchase price for the ARCX units was reduced by the amount of such dividend, which had the effect of paying such distribution in additional units. For paid-in-kind dividends, the additional units are not reflected in investment income during the period received, but are recorded as unrealized gains upon receipt. Non-cash distributions are reflected in investment income because

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

the Fund has the option to receive its distribution in cash or in additional shares or units of the security. During the three and six months ended May 31, 2015, the Fund received the following paid-in-kind and non-cash dividends and distributions.

 

      For the
Three Months
Ended
May 31,

2015
     For the
Six Months
Ended
May 31,

2015
 

Paid-in-kind dividends

     

Arc Logistics Partners LP — Unregistered

   $ 161       $ 161   

Enbridge Energy Management, L.L.C.

     1,490         3,018   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
     1,651         3,179   

Non-cash dividends and distributions

     

ARC Resources Ltd.

     28         61   

Baytex Energy Corp.

             10   

Crescent Point Energy Corp.

     75         151   

Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.

     1,010         1,456   

Enterprise Products Partners L.P.

     231         413   

Gibson Energy Inc.

     29         58   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
     1,373         2,149   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total paid-in-kind and non-cash dividends and distributions

   $ 3,024       $ 5,328   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

K. Distributions to Stockholders — Distributions to common stockholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Distributions to holders of MRP Shares are accrued on a daily basis as described in Note 12 — Preferred Stock. As required by the Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity topic of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC 480), the Fund includes the accrued distributions on its MRP Shares as an operating expense due to the fixed term of this obligation. For tax purposes the payments made to the holders of the Fund’s MRP Shares are treated as dividends or distributions.

The characterization of the distributions paid to holders of MRP Shares and common stock for the six months ended May 31, 2015 as either dividend income (eligible to be treated as qualified dividend income) or distributions (long-term capital gains or return of capital) will be determined after the end of the fiscal year based on the Fund’s actual earnings and profits and, therefore, the characterization may differ from the preliminary estimates.

L. Partnership Accounting Policy — The Fund records its pro-rata share of the income (loss) and capital gains (losses), to the extent of distributions it has received, allocated from the underlying partnerships and adjusts the cost basis of the underlying partnerships accordingly. These amounts are included in the Fund’s Statement of Operations.

M. Taxes — It is the Fund’s intention to continue to be treated as and to qualify each year for special tax treatment afforded a regulated investment company (“RIC”) under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). As long as the Fund meets certain requirements that govern its sources of income, diversification of assets and timely distribution of earnings to stockholders, the Fund will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax.

The Fund must pay distributions equal to 90% of its investment company taxable income (ordinary income and short-term capital gains) to qualify as a RIC and it must distribute all of its taxable income (ordinary income, short-term capital gains and long-term capital gains) to avoid federal income taxes. The Fund will be subject to federal income tax on any undistributed portion of income. For purposes of the distribution test, the Fund may elect to treat as paid on the last day of its taxable year all or part of any distributions that are declared after the

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

end of its taxable year if such distributions are declared before the due date of its tax return, including any extensions (August 15th). See Note 6 — Taxes.

All RICs are subject to a non-deductible 4% excise tax on income that is not distributed on a timely basis in accordance with the calendar year distribution requirements. To avoid the tax, the Fund must distribute during each calendar year an amount at least equal to the sum of (i) 98% of its ordinary income for the calendar year, (ii) 98.2% of its net capital gains for the one-year period ending on November 30, the last day of our taxable year, and (iii) undistributed amounts from previous years on which the Fund paid no U.S. federal income tax. A distribution will be treated as paid during the calendar year if it is paid during the calendar year or declared by the Fund in October, November or December, payable to stockholders of record on a date during such months and paid by the Fund during January of the following year. Any such distributions paid during January of the following year will be deemed to be received by stockholders on December 31 of the year the distributions are declared, rather than when the distributions are actually received.

The Fund will be liable for the excise tax on the amount by which it does not meet the distribution requirement and will accrue an excise tax liability at the time that the liability is estimable and probable. During the six months ended May 31, 2015, the Fund incurred $2,404 of excise tax expense. See Note 6 — Taxes.

Dividend income received by the Fund from sources within Canada is subject to a 15% foreign withholding tax. For non-cash dividends received from ARC Resources Ltd., Crescent Point Energy Corp. and Gibson Energy Inc. during the three and six months ended May 31, 2015, there was no foreign withholding tax. Interest income, on Canadian corporate debt obligations, paid or payable to a non-resident entity that deals at arm’s length with the Canadian resident should generally be exempt from withholding tax on interest, with a few exceptions (e.g., a profit participating debt interest).

The Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes Topic of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC 740) defines the threshold for recognizing the benefits of tax-return positions in the financial statements as “more-likely-than-not” to be sustained by the taxing authority and requires measurement of a tax position meeting the more-likely-than-not criterion, based on the largest benefit that is more than 50% likely to be realized.

Since the Fund’s inception, it has utilized the specific identification tax accounting method to compute the adjusted tax cost basis of its MLP securities and for selection of lots to be sold. On July 13, 2015, the Fund filed a request with the Internal Revenue Service to change the tax accounting method used to compute the adjusted tax cost basis of its MLP securities to the average cost method. See Note 6 — Taxes.

The Fund’s policy is to classify interest and penalties associated with underpayment of federal and state income taxes, if any, as income tax expense on its Statement of Operations. For the three and six months ended May 31, 2015, the Fund did not have any interest or penalties associated with the underpayment of any income taxes. All tax years since inception remain open and subject to examination by federal and state tax authorities.

N. Foreign Currency Translations — The books and records of the Fund are maintained in U.S. dollars. Foreign currency amounts are translated into U.S. dollars on the following basis: (i) market value of investment securities, assets and liabilities at the rate of exchange as of the valuation date; and (ii) purchases and sales of investment securities, income and expenses at the relevant rates of exchange prevailing on the respective dates of such transactions.

The Fund does not isolate that portion of gains and losses on investments in equity and debt securities which is due to changes in the foreign exchange rates from that which is due to changes in market prices of equity and debt securities. Accordingly, realized and unrealized foreign currency gains and losses with respect to such securities are included in the reported net realized and unrealized gains and losses on investment transactions balances.

Net realized foreign exchange gains or losses represent gains and losses from transactions in foreign currencies and foreign currency contracts, foreign exchange gains or losses realized between the trade date and

 

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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

settlement date on security transactions, and the difference between the amounts of interest and dividends recorded on the Fund’s books and the U.S. dollar equivalent of such amounts on the payment date.

Net unrealized foreign exchange gains or losses represent the difference between the cost of assets and liabilities (other than investments) recorded on the Fund’s books from the value of the assets and liabilities (other than investments) on the valuation date.

O. Indemnifications — Under the Fund’s organizational documents, its officers and directors are indemnified against certain liabilities arising out of the performance of their duties to the Fund. In addition, in the normal course of business, the Fund enters into contracts that provide general indemnification to other parties. The Fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown, as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Fund that have not yet occurred, and may not occur. However, the Fund has not had prior claims or losses pursuant to these contracts and expects the risk of loss to be remote.

P. Offering and Debt Issuance Costs — Offering costs incurred by the Fund related to the issuance of its common stock reduce additional paid-in-capital when the stock is issued. Costs incurred by the Fund related to the issuance of its debt (revolving credit facility, term loan or senior notes) or its preferred stock are capitalized and amortized over the period the debt or preferred stock is outstanding.

 

3. Fair Value

The Fair Value Measurement Topic of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC 820”) defines fair value as the price at which an orderly transaction to sell an asset or to transfer a liability would take place between market participants under current market conditions at the measurement date. As required by ASC 820, the Fund has performed an analysis of all assets and liabilities measured at fair value to determine the significance and character of all inputs to their fair value determination. Inputs are the assumptions, along with considerations of risk, that a market participant would use to value an asset or a liability. In general, observable inputs are based on market data that is readily available, regularly distributed and verifiable that the Fund obtains from independent, third-party sources. Unobservable inputs are developed by the Fund based on its own assumptions of how market participants would value an asset or a liability.

Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2011-04 “Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements in U.S. GAAP and IFRSs” amends ASC 820. The amended guidance clarifies the wording used to describe many requirements in accounting literature for fair value measurement and disclosure to establish consistency between U.S. GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRSs”).

ASU No. 2011-04 requires the inclusion of additional disclosures on assumptions used by the Fund to determine fair value. Specifically, for assets measured at fair value using significant unobservable inputs (Level 3), ASU No. 2011-04 requires that the Fund (i) describe the valuation process, (ii) disclose quantitative information about unobservable inputs and (iii) provide a qualitative discussion about the sensitivity of the fair value measurement to changes in the unobservable inputs and inter-relationships between the inputs.

The fair value hierarchy prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value into the following three broad categories.

 

   

Level 1 — Valuations based on quoted unadjusted prices for identical instruments in active markets traded on a national exchange to which the Fund has access at the date of measurement.

 

   

Level 2 — Valuations based on quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets; quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active; and model-derived valuations in which all significant inputs and significant value drivers are observable in active markets. Level 2 inputs are those

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

  in markets for which there are few transactions, the prices are not current, little public information exists or instances where prices vary substantially over time or among brokered market makers.

 

   

Level 3 — Model derived valuations in which one or more significant inputs or significant value drivers are unobservable. Unobservable inputs are those inputs that reflect the Fund’s own assumptions that market participants would use to price the asset or liability based on the best available information.

The following table presents the Fund’s assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis at May 31, 2015, and the Fund presents these assets and liabilities by security type and description on its Schedule of Investments or on its Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Note that the valuation levels below are not necessarily an indication of the risk or liquidity associated with the underlying investment.

 

      Total      Quoted Prices in
Active Markets
(Level 1)
     Prices with Other
Observable Inputs
(Level 2)
    Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)
 

Assets at Fair Value

          

Equity investments

   $ 1,026,267       $ 956,498       $ 51,342 (1)    $ 18,427   

Debt investments

     134,613                 134,613          
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total assets at fair value

   $ 1,160,880       $ 956,498       $ 185,955      $ 18,427   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Liabilities at Fair Value

          

Call option contracts written

   $ 681       $       $ 681      $   

 

(1) The Fund’s investment in PAA GP is exchangeable into shares of Plains GP Holdings, L.P. (“Plains GP”) on a one-for-one basis at the Fund’s option. Plains GP trades on the NYSE under the ticker “PAGP”. The Fund values its investment in PAA GP on an “as exchanged” basis based on the public market value of Plains GP and categorizes its investment as a Level 2 security for fair value reporting purposes.

For the six months ended May 31, 2015, there were no transfers between Level 1 and Level 2.

As of May 31, 2015, the Fund had Notes outstanding with aggregate principal amount of $235,000 and 4,200,000 shares of MRP Shares outstanding with a total liquidation value of $105,000. The Notes and MRP Shares were issued in private placements to institutional investors and are not listed on any exchange or automated quotation system. See Note 11 — Notes and Note 12 — Preferred Stock. As a result, the Fund categorizes the Notes and MRP Shares as Level 3 securities and determines the fair value of these instruments based on estimated market yields and credit spreads for comparable instruments with similar maturity, terms and structure.

The Fund records the Notes and MRP Shares on its Statement of Assets and Liabilities at principal amount or liquidation value. As of May 31, 2015, the estimated fair values of these leverage instruments are as follows.

 

Security

   Principal Amount/
Liquidation  Value
     Fair Value  

Notes

   $ 235,000       $ 246,500   

MRP Shares

   $ 105,000       $ 110,200   

 

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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

The following tables present the Fund’s assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis using significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) for the three and six months ended May 31, 2015.

 

Three Months Ended May 31, 2015

   Equity
Investments
 

Balance — February 28, 2015

   $ 6,188   

Purchases

     11,667   

Issuances

     161   

Transfers out to Level 1 and 2

       

Relized gains (losses)

       

Unrealized gains, net

     411   
  

 

 

 

Balance — May 31, 2015

   $ 18,427   
  

 

 

 

 

Six Months Ended May 31, 2015

   Equity
Investments
 

Balance — November 30, 2014

   $ 52,527   

Purchases

     11,667   

Issuances

     161   

Transfers out to Level 1 and 2

     (47,169

Realized gains (losses)

       

Unrealized gains, net

     1,241   
  

 

 

 

Balance — May 31, 2015

   $ 18,427   
  

 

 

 

The $411 and $1,241 of net unrealized gains for the three and six months ended May 31, 2015 relate to investments that were still held at May 31, 2015, and the Fund includes these unrealized gains on the Statement of Operations — Net Change in Unrealized Gains.

The purchases of $11,667 for the three and six months ended May 31, 2015 relate to the Fund’s investment in Arc Logistics Partners LP (Common Units) and Shell Midstream Partners, L.P. (Common Units) that were both made in May 2015. The issuance of $161 for the three and six months ended May 31, 2015 relates to additional units received from Arc Logistics Partners LP. The transfer out of $47,169 for the six months ended May 31, 2015 relates to the Fund’s investment in Plains AAP, L.P. (“PAA GP”) that became marketable during the first quarter of fiscal 2015 when its 15-month lock-up expired.

Valuation Techniques and Unobservable Inputs

Unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, the Fund values its private investments in public equity (“PIPE”) investments that are convertible into or otherwise will become publicly-tradeable (e.g., through subsequent registration or expiration of a restriction on trading) based on the market value of the publicly-traded security less a discount. This discount is initially equal to the discount negotiated at the time the Fund agrees to a purchase price. To the extent that such securities are convertible or otherwise become publicly traded within a time frame that may be reasonably determined, this discount will be amortized on a straight line basis over such estimated time frame. As of May 31, 2015, the Fund had PIPE investments in Arc Logistics Partners LP and Shell Midstream Partners, L.P.

The Fund owns Class B Units of Capital Product Partners L.P. (“CPLP”) that were issued in a private placement. The Class B Units are convertible on a one-for-one basis into common units and are senior to CPLP’s common units in terms of liquidation preference and priority of distributions. The Fund’s Board of Directors has determined that it is appropriate to value the Class B Units using a convertible pricing model. This model takes into account the attributes of the Class B Units, including the preferred dividend, conversion ratio and call features, to determine the estimated value of such units. In using this model, the Fund estimates (i) the credit

 

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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

spread for CPLP’s Class B Units, which is based on credit spreads for companies in a similar line of business as CPLP and (ii) the expected volatility for CPLP’s common units, which is based on CPLP’s historical volatility. The Fund applies a discount to the value derived from the convertible pricing model to account for an expected discount in market prices for convertible securities relative to the values calculated using pricing models. If this resulting price per Class B Unit is less than the public market price for CPLP’s common units at such time, the public market price for CPLP’s common unit will be used for the Class B Units.

Due to the inherent uncertainty of determining the fair value of investments that do not have a readily available market value, the fair value of the Fund’s investments may fluctuate from period to period. Additionally, the fair value of the Fund’s investments may differ from the values that would have been used had a ready market existed for such investments and may differ materially from the values that the Fund may ultimately realize.

The following table summarizes the significant unobservable inputs that the Fund used to value its portfolio investments categorized as Level 3 as of May 31, 2015:

Quantitative Table for Valuation Techniques

 

                  Range        

Assets at Fair Value

  Fair Value    

Valuation Technique

 

Unobservable Inputs

  Low         High     Average  

Equity securities of public companies
(PIPE) - valued
based on a discount to
market value

  $ 12,421     

- Discount to publicly-traded

  securities

  - Current Discount     4.6%          5.4%        5.0%   

Equity securities of

    6,006      - Convertible pricing model   - Credit spread     7.5%          8.0%        7.8%   

public companies –

valued based on pricing model

     

- Volatility

- Discount for marketability

   

 

30.0%

5.0%

  

  

     

 

35.0%

5.0%

  

  

   

 

32.5%

5.0%

  

  

 

 

 

             

Total

    18,427               
 

 

 

             

 

4. Concentration of Risk

The Fund’s investments are concentrated in the energy sector. The focus of the Fund’s portfolio within the energy sector may present more risks than if the Fund’s portfolio were broadly diversified across numerous sectors of the economy. A downturn in the energy sector would have a larger impact on the Fund than on an investment company that does not focus on the energy sector. The performance of securities in the energy sector may lag the performance of other industries or the broader market as a whole. Additionally, to the extent that the Fund invests a relatively high percentage of its assets in the securities of a limited number of issuers, the Fund may be more susceptible than a more widely diversified investment company to any single economic, political or regulatory occurrence. At May 31, 2015, the Fund had the following investment concentrations:

 

Category

   Percent of
Long-Term
Investments
 

Securities of Energy Companies(1)

     98.1

Equity securities

     88.4

Debt securities

     11.6

Securities of MLPs(1)

     32.0

Largest single issuer

     10.9

Restricted securities

     14.3

 

(1) Refer to the “Glossary of Key Terms” (page 41) for the definitions of Energy Companies and MLPs.

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

 

5. Agreements and Affiliations

A. Administration Agreement — The Fund has an administration and accounting agreement with Ultimus Fund Solutions, LLC (“Ultimus”) that may be amended from time to time. Pursuant to the agreement, Ultimus will provide certain administrative and accounting services for the Fund. The agreement has an initial term of two years (expiring on November 14, 2015) and has automatic one-year renewals unless earlier terminated by either party as provided under the terms of the agreement.

B. Investment Management Agreement — The Fund has entered into an investment management agreement with KAFA under which KAFA, subject to the overall supervision of the Fund’s Board of Directors, manages the day-to-day operations of, and provides investment advisory services to, the Fund. For providing these services, KAFA receives an investment management fee from the Fund. On September 29, 2014, the Fund renewed its agreement with KAFA for a period of one year, which expires on October 19, 2015. The agreement may be renewed annually upon the approval of the Fund’s Board of Directors (including a majority of the Fund’s directors who are not “interested persons” of the Fund, as such term is defined in the 1940 Act). For the six months ended May 31, 2015, the Fund paid management fees at an annual rate of 1.25% of the average monthly total assets of the Fund.

For purposes of calculating the management fee, the “average total assets” for each monthly period are determined by averaging the total assets at the last business day of that month with the total assets at the last business day of the prior month. The total assets of the Fund shall be equal to its average monthly gross asset value (which includes assets attributable to the Fund’s use of debt and preferred stock), minus the sum of the Fund’s accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions on any outstanding common stock and accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions on any outstanding preferred stock and accrued liabilities (other than liabilities associated with borrowing or leverage by the Fund). Liabilities associated with borrowing or leverage include the principal amount of any debt issued by the Fund, the liquidation preference of any outstanding preferred stock, and other liabilities from other forms of borrowing or leverage such as short positions and put or call options held or written by the Fund.

C. Portfolio Companies — From time to time, the Fund may “control” or may be an “affiliate” of one or more of its portfolio companies, as each of these terms is defined in the 1940 Act. In general, under the 1940 Act, the Fund would be presumed to “control” a portfolio company if the Fund and its affiliates owned 25% or more of its outstanding voting securities and would be an “affiliate” of a portfolio company if the Fund and its affiliates owned 5% or more of its outstanding voting securities. The 1940 Act contains prohibitions and restrictions relating to transactions between investment companies and their affiliates (including the Fund’s investment adviser), principal underwriters and affiliates of those affiliates or underwriters.

The Fund believes that there are several factors that determine whether or not a security should be considered a “voting security” in complex structures such as limited partnerships of the kind in which the Fund invests. The Fund also notes that the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) staff has issued guidance on the circumstances under which it would consider a limited partnership interest to constitute a voting security. Under most partnership agreements, the management of the partnership is vested in the general partner, and the limited partners, individually or collectively, have no rights to manage or influence management of the partnership through such activities as participating in the selection of the managers or the board of the limited partnership or the general partner. As a result, the Fund believes that many of the limited partnership interests in which it invests should not be considered voting securities. However, it is possible that the SEC staff may consider the limited partner interests the Fund holds in certain limited partnerships to be voting securities. If such a determination were made, the Fund may be regarded as a person affiliated with and controlling the issuer(s) of those securities for purposes of Section 17 of the 1940 Act.

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

In making such a determination as to whether to treat any class of limited partnership interests the Fund holds as a voting security, the Fund considers, among other factors, whether or not the holders of such limited partnership interests have the right to elect the board of directors of the limited partnership or the general partner. If the holders of such limited partnership interests do not have the right to elect the board of directors, the Fund generally has not treated such security as a voting security. In other circumstances, based on the facts and circumstances of those partnership agreements, including the right to elect the directors of the general partner, the Fund has treated those securities as voting securities. If the Fund does not consider the security to be a voting security, it will not consider such partnership to be an “affiliate” unless the Fund and its affiliates own more than 25% of the outstanding securities of such partnership. Additionally, certain partnership agreements give common unitholders the right to elect the partnership’s board of directors, but limit the amount of voting securities any limited partner can hold to no more than 4.9% of the partnership’s outstanding voting securities (i.e., any amounts held in excess of such limit by a limited partner do not have voting rights). In such instances, the Fund does not consider itself to be an affiliate if it owns more than 5% of such partnership’s common units.

There is no assurance that the SEC staff will not consider that other limited partnership securities that the Fund owns and does not treat as voting securities are, in fact, voting securities for the purposes of Section 17 of the 1940 Act. If such determination were made, the Fund will be required to abide by the restrictions on “control” or “affiliate” transactions as proscribed in the 1940 Act. The Fund or any portfolio company that it controls, and its affiliates, may from time to time engage in certain of such joint transactions, purchases, sales and loans in reliance upon and in compliance with the conditions of certain exemptive rules promulgated by the SEC. The Fund cannot make assurances, however, that it would be able to satisfy the conditions of these rules with respect to any particular eligible transaction, or even if the Fund were allowed to engage in such a transaction, that the terms would be more or as favorable to the Fund or any company that it controls as those that could be obtained in arm’s length transaction. As a result of these prohibitions, restrictions may be imposed on the size of positions that may be taken for the Fund or on the type of investments that it could make.

As of May 31, 2015, the Fund believes that MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P. meets the criteria described above and is therefore considered an affiliate of the Fund.

Plains GP Holdings, L.P., Plains AAP, L.P. and Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. — Robert V. Sinnott is Chief Executive Officer of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P. (“KACALP”), the managing member of KAFA. Mr. Sinnott also serves as a director of (i) PAA GP Holdings LLC, which is the general partner of Plains GP Holdings, L.P. (“Plains GP”) and (ii) Plains All American GP LLC (“Plains All American GP”), which controls the general partner of Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (“PAA”). Members of senior management of KACALP and KAFA and various affiliated funds managed by KACALP, including the Fund, own shares of Plains GP as well as interests in Plains AAP, L.P. (“PAA GP”) (which are exchangeable into shares of Plains GP as described in Note 3 — Fair Value). The Fund believes that it is an affiliate of Plains GP and PAA under the 1940 Act by virtue of (i) the Fund’s and other affiliated Kayne Anderson funds’ ownership interest in Plains GP and PAA GP and (ii) Mr. Sinnott’s participation on the boards of Plains GP and Plains All American GP.

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

 

6. Taxes

It is the Fund’s intention to continue to be treated as and to qualify as a RIC under Subchapter M of the Code and distribute all of its taxable income. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required in the financial statements. See Note 2 — Significant Accounting Policies.

Income and capital gain distributions made by RICs often differ from GAAP basis net investment income (loss) and net realized gains (losses). For the Fund, the principal reason for these differences is the return of capital treatment of dividends and distributions from MLPs and certain other of its investments. Net investment income and net realized gains for GAAP purposes may differ from taxable income for federal income tax purposes.

As of May 31, 2015, the principal temporary differences between income for GAAP purposes and taxable income were (a) realized losses that were recognized for GAAP purposes, but disallowed for tax purposes due to wash sale rules; (b) disallowed partnership losses related to the Fund’s MLP investments; and (c) other basis adjustments in the Fund’s MLPs and other investments.

At November 30, 2014, the Fund had $73,379 of undistributed ordinary income and long-term capital gains (collectively, “Undistributed Income”). In order to avoid paying federal income taxes on such Undistributed Income, on June 24, 2015, the Fund declared a special distribution of $38,994 or $1.80 per share. See Note 14 — Subsequent Events.

For the fiscal year ended November 30, 2014, the tax character of the total $41,716 distributions paid to common stockholders was $34,315 of dividend income and $7,401 of long-term capital gains, and the tax character of the total $4,168 distributions paid to holders of MRP Shares was $3,228 of dividend income and $940 of long-term capital gains.

For purposes of determining the tax character of the dividends/distributions to investors, the amounts in excess of the Fund’s earnings and profits for federal income tax purposes are treated as a return of capital. Earnings and profits differ from taxable income due principally to adjustments related to the Fund’s investments in MLPs.

The Fund is subject to a non-deductible 4% excise tax on income that is not distributed in accordance with the calendar year distribution requirements. As of November 30, 2014, the Fund intended to declare a special distribution prior to the end of calendar 2014 to avoid the excise tax and, as a result, it did not accrue any excise tax for fiscal 2014 as the liability was not probable and estimable. Due to unfavorable market conditions after the Fund’s fiscal year end, it determined in early December 2014 not to make a special distribution of income in order to avoid excise tax. As a result, during the six months ended May 31, 2015, the Fund incurred estimated excise taxes of $2,404. See Note 2 — Significant Accounting Policies.

Under the Regulated Investment Company Modernization Act of 2010, any net capital losses recognized after December 31, 2010 may be carried forward indefinitely, and their character is retained as short-term and/or long-term losses.

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

On July 13, 2015, the Fund filed a request with the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) to change the tax accounting method used to compute the adjusted tax cost basis of its MLP securities to the average cost method. The two tax accounting methods that are generally used by owners of MLP securities are the average cost method and specific identification method. Since the Fund’s inception, based on the advice of its tax adviser, it has utilized the specific identification tax accounting method to compute the adjusted tax cost basis of its MLP securities and for selection of lots to be sold. Although there is varied industry practice and no direct, clear guidance regarding the correct tax accounting method, the Fund has recently come to the conclusion that the average cost method is a more certain tax position.

The Fund believes that the IRS will grant the tax accounting method change and the effective date for the change will be December 1, 2014. Had the Fund utilized the average cost method since its inception, the Fund would have reported approximately $20,100 less taxable income than was recognized under the specific identification method. The IRS is expected to allow the Fund to reduce its fiscal 2015 taxable income by this amount. The tax accounting method change does not change the Fund’s net asset value. See Note 2 — Significant Accounting Policies and Note 14 — Subsequent Events.

At May 31, 2015, the cost basis of investments for federal income tax purposes was $949,937, and the premiums received on outstanding option contracts written were $1,106. At May 31, 2015, gross unrealized appreciation and depreciation of investments and options for federal income tax purposes were as follows:

 

Gross unrealized appreciation of investments (including options)

   $ 265,889   

Gross unrealized depreciation of investments (including options)

     (54,521
  

 

 

 

Net unrealized appreciation of investments before foreign currency related translations

     211,368   

Unrealized depreciation on foreign currency related translations

     (18
  

 

 

 

Net unrealized appreciation of investments

   $ 211,350   
  

 

 

 

 

7. Restricted Securities

From time to time, certain of the Fund’s investments may be restricted as to resale. For instance, private investments that are not registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), cannot be offered for public sale in a non-exempt transaction without first being registered. In other cases, certain of the Fund’s investments have restrictions such as lock-up agreements that preclude the Fund from offering these securities for public sale.

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

At May 31, 2015, the Fund held the following restricted investments:

 

Investment

 

Acquisition
Date

  Type of
Restriction
  Number of
Units,
Principal ($)
(in 000s)
    Cost
Basis
(GAAP)
    Fair
Value
    Fair Value
Per Unit
    Percent
of Net
Assets
    Percent
of Total
Assets
 

Level 2 Investments

               

Equity Investments

               

Plains GP Holdings, L.P.(1)

               

Partnership Interests

  (2)   (3)     1,836      $ 5,891      $ 51,342      $ 27.96        6.5     4.4

Senior Notes and Secured Term
Loans
(4)

               

American Eagle Energy Corporation

  8/13/14   (5)   $ 4,800        4,759        1,800        n/a        0.2        0.1   

American Energy-Woodford, LLC

  9/11/14   (6)     1,500        1,442        733        n/a        0.1        0.1   

Athabasca Oil Corporation

  (2)   (5)     (7)        4,685        4,647        n/a        0.6        0.4   

BlackBrush Oil & Gas, L.P.

  (2)   (6)     13,300        13,172        12,535        n/a        1.6        1.1   

Canbriam Energy Inc.

  (2)   (6)     3,880        3,805        3,996        n/a        0.5        0.3   

Chief Oil & Gas LLC

  (2)   (6)     7,608        7,332        7,380        n/a        0.9        0.6   

Comstock Resources, Inc.

  (2)   (5)     5,000        5,004        4,850        n/a        0.6        0.4   

Endeavor Energy Resources, LP

  (2)   (6)     6,250        6,320        6,516        n/a        0.8        0.5   

Endeavor Energy Resources, LP

  (2)   (6)     2,100        1,862        2,105        n/a        0.3        0.2   

Energy & Exploration Partners, Inc.

  12/22/14   (6)     995        730        866        n/a        0.1        0.1   

Jonah Energy LLC

  5/8/14   (6)     3,000        2,960        2,857        n/a        0.4        0.2   

Jones Energy, Inc.

  4/29/15   (5)     5,000        5,366        5,344        n/a        0.7        0.5   

Jupiter Resources Inc.

  9/11/14   (6)     10,000        9,605        8,450        n/a        1.1        0.7   

Navios Maritime Holdings, Inc.

  (2)   (5)     2,500        2,585        2,294        n/a        0.3        0.2   

Peabody Energy Corporation

  3/5/15   (5)     4,000        3,903        3,080        n/a        0.4        0.3   

RKI Exploration & Production, LLC

  (2)   (6)     14,605        14,455        14,605        n/a        1.8        1.2   

Stonewall Gas Gathering LLC

  (2)   (6)     3,491        3,375        3,535        n/a        0.4        0.3   

Teine Energy Ltd.

  9/9/14   (6)     2,500        2,482        2,469        n/a        0.3        0.2   

Triangle USA Petroleum Corporation

  7/15/14   (5)     800        800        680        n/a        0.1        0.1   

Vantage Energy, LLC

  (2)   (6)     8,907        8,856        7,928        n/a        1.0        0.7   
       

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  

  $ 109,389      $ 148,012          18.7     12.6
       

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Level 3 Investments(8)

  

         

Arc Logistics Partners LP

               

Common Units

  5/14/15   (5)     402      $ 6,667      $ 6,931      $ 17.25        0.9%        0.6

Capital Products Partners L.P.

               

Class B Units

  (2)   (5)     606        4,329        6,006        9.91        0.7        0.5   

Shell Midstream Partners, L.P.

               

Common Units

  5/18/15   (5)     128        5,000        5,490        42.83        0.7        0.5   
       

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  

  $ 15,996      $ 18,427          2.3     1.6
       

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total of all restricted investments

  

  $ 125,385      $ 166,439          21.0     14.2
       

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(1) The Fund values its investment in Plains AAP, L.P. (“PAA GP”) on an “as exchanged” basis based on the public market value of Plains GP Holdings, L.P. (“Plains GP”). See Note 3 — Fair Value.

 

(2) Security was acquired at various dates during the six months ended May 31, 2015 and/or in prior fiscal years.

 

(3) The Fund’s investment in PAA GP is exchangeable into shares of Plains GP on a one-for-one basis at the Fund’s option. Upon exchange, the shares of Plains GP will be free of any restriction.

 

(4) These securities have a fair market value determined by the mean of the bid and ask prices provided by an agent or a syndicate bank, a principal market maker or an independent pricing service as more fully described in Note 2 — Significant Accounting Policies. These securities have limited trading volume and are not listed on a national exchange.

 

(5) Unregistered or restricted security of a publicly-traded company.

 

(6) Unregistered security of a private company.

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

 

(7) Principal amount is 6,350 Canadian dollars.

 

(8) Securities are valued using inputs reflecting the Fund’s own assumptions as more fully described in Note 2 — Significant Accounting Policies and Note 3 — Fair Value.

 

8. Derivative Financial Instruments

As required by the Derivatives and Hedging Topic of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC 815), the following are the derivative instruments and hedging activities of the Fund. See Note 2 — Significant Accounting Policies.

Option Contracts — Transactions in option contracts for the three and six months ended May 31, 2015 were as follows:

 

Three Months Ended May 31, 2015

   Number of
Contracts
    Premium  

Call Options Written

    

Options outstanding at February 28, 2015

     17,922      $ 1,831   

Options written

     20,675        2,262   

Options subsequently repurchased(1)

     (10,595     (1,066

Options exercised

     (8,647     (1,052

Options expired

     (9,342     (869
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Options outstanding at May 31, 2015(2)

     10,013      $ 1,106   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(1) The price at which the Fund subsequently repurchased the options was $213, which resulted in a net realized gains of $853.

 

(2) The percentage of total investments subject to call options written was 5.5% at May 31, 2015.

 

Six Months Ended May 31, 2015

   Number of
Contracts
    Premium  

Call Options Written

    

Options outstanding at November 30, 2014

     11,400      $ 1,046   

Options written

     41,797        4,545   

Options subsequently repurchased(1)

     (13,095     (1,381

Options exercised

     (10,947     (1,312

Options expired

     (19,142     (1,792
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Options outstanding at May 31, 2015

     10,013      $ 1,106   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(1) The price at which the Fund subsequently repurchased the options was $286, which resulted in net realized gains of $1,095.

Interest Rate Swap Contracts — The Fund may enter into interest rate swap contracts to partially hedge itself from increasing expense on its leverage resulting from increasing interest rates. At the time the interest rate swap contracts reach their scheduled termination, there is a risk that the Fund would not be able to obtain a replacement transaction or that the terms of the replacement transaction would not be as favorable as on the expiring transaction. In addition, if the Fund is required to terminate any swap contract early, then the Fund could be required to make a termination payment. As of May 31, 2015, the Fund did not have any interest rate swap contracts outstanding.

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

The following table sets forth the fair value of the Fund’s derivative instruments on the Statement of Assets and Liabilities:

 

Derivatives Not Accounted for as
Hedging Instruments

    

Statement of Assets and Liabilities Location

  

Fair Value as of
May 31, 2015

 

Call options written

    

Call option contracts written

   $ (681

The following tables set forth the effect of the Fund’s derivative instruments on the Statement of Operations:

 

           For the Three Months Ended
May 31, 2015
 

Derivatives Not Accounted for as
Hedging Instruments

  

Location of Gains/(Losses) on
Derivatives Recognized in Income

  

Net Realized
Gains/(Losses) on
Derivatives
Recognized in
Income

    

Change in
Unrealized
Gains/(Losses) on
Derivatives
Recognized in
Income

 

Call options

   Options    $ 1,722       $ 1,339   

 

           For the Six Months Ended
May 31, 2015
 

Derivatives Not Accounted for as
Hedging Instruments

  

Location of Gains/(Losses) on
Derivatives Recognized in Income

  

Net Realized
Gains/(Losses) on
Derivatives
Recognized in
Income

    

Change in
Unrealized
Gains/(Losses) on
Derivatives
Recognized in
Income

 

Call options written

   Options    $ 2,884       $ 2   

 

9. Investment Transactions

For the six months ended May 31, 2015, the Fund purchased and sold securities in the amounts of $312,232 and $331,895 (excluding short-term investments and options).

 

10. Credit Facility and Term Loan

At May 31, 2015, the Fund had a $105,000 unsecured revolving credit facility (the “Credit Facility”) with a syndicate of lenders. The Credit Facility has a three-year commitment, maturing on November 21, 2016. The interest rate on outstanding loan balances may vary between LIBOR plus 1.50% and LIBOR plus 2.15%, depending on the Fund’s asset coverage ratios. Outstanding loan balances accrue interest daily at a rate equal to LIBOR plus 1.50%, based on current asset coverage ratios. The Fund pays a fee of 0.25% per annum on any unused amounts of the Credit Facility. See Financial Highlights for the Fund’s asset coverage ratios under the 1940 Act.

For the six months ended May 31, 2015, the average amount outstanding under the Credit Facility was $929 with a weighted average interest rate of 1.72%. As of May 31, 2015, the Fund did not have any borrowings outstanding under the Credit Facility.

At May 31, 2015, the Fund had a $50,000 unsecured revolving term loan (“Term Loan”). The Term Loan has a five-year commitment and borrowings under the Term Loan accrue interest at a rate of LIBOR plus 1.30%. The Fund pays a fee of 0.25% per annum on any unused amount of the Term Loan.

For the six months ended May 31, 2015, the average amount outstanding under the Term Loan was $28,220 with a weighted average interest rate of 1.48%. As of May 31, 2015, the Fund had $28,000 outstanding under the Term Loan at an interest rate of 1.49%.

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

As of May 31, 2015, the Fund was in compliance with all financial and operational covenants required by the Credit Facility and Term Loan.

 

11. Notes

At May 31, 2015, the Fund had $235,000 aggregate principal amount of Notes outstanding. The table below sets forth the key terms of each series of the Notes at May 31, 2015.

 

Series    Principal
Outstanding,
May 31,
2015
     Estimated
Fair Value
May 31,
2015
     Fixed
Interest Rate
    Maturity  
A    $ 55,000       $ 56,600         3.93     3/3/16   
B      60,000         64,700         4.62     3/3/18   
C      50,000         53,300         4.00     3/22/22   
D      40,000         40,800         3.34     5/1/23   
E      30,000         31,100         3.46     7/30/21   
  

 

 

    

 

 

      
   $ 235,000       $ 246,500        
  

 

 

    

 

 

      

Holders of the Notes are entitled to receive cash interest payments semi-annually (on September 3 and March 3) at the fixed rate. For the six months ended May 31, 2015, the weighted average interest rate on the outstanding Notes was 3.97%.

As of May 31, 2015, each series of Notes was rated “AAA” by FitchRatings. In the event the credit rating on any series of Notes falls below “A-”, the interest rate on such series will increase by 1% during the period of time such series is rated below “A-”. The Fund is required to maintain a current rating from one rating agency with respect to each series of Notes.

The Notes were issued in private placement offerings to institutional investors and are not listed on any exchange or automated quotation system. The Notes contain various covenants related to other indebtedness, liens and limits on the Fund’s overall leverage. Under the 1940 Act and the terms of the Notes, the Fund may not declare dividends or make other distributions on shares of its common stock or make purchases of such shares if, at any time of the declaration, distribution or purchase, asset coverage with respect to the outstanding Notes would be less than 300%.

The Notes are redeemable in certain circumstances at the option of the Fund. The Notes are also subject to a mandatory redemption to the extent needed to satisfy certain requirements if the Fund fails to meet an asset coverage ratio required by law and is not able to cure the coverage deficiency by the applicable deadline, or fails to cure a deficiency as stated in the Fund’s rating agency guidelines in a timely manner.

The Notes are unsecured obligations of the Fund and, upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Fund, will rank: (1) senior to all of the Fund’s outstanding preferred shares; (2) senior to all of the Fund’s outstanding common shares; (3) on a parity with any unsecured creditors of the Fund and any unsecured senior securities representing indebtedness of the Fund; and (4) junior to any secured creditors of the Fund.

At May 31, 2015, the Fund was in compliance with all covenants under the agreements of the Notes.

 

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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

 

12. Preferred Stock

At May 31, 2015, the Fund had 4,200,000 shares of MRP Shares outstanding, with a total liquidation value of $105,000 ($25.00 per share). The table below sets forth the key terms of each series of the MRP Shares at May 31, 2015.

 

Series    Liquidation Value
May 31,
2015
     Estimated
Fair Value
May 31,
2015
     Rate   Maturity
Redemption
Date
 
A    $ 35,000       $ 37,400       5.32%     3/3/18   
B      30,000         31,600       4.50%     3/22/20   
C      40,000         41,200       4.06%     7/30/21   
  

 

 

    

 

 

      
   $ 105,000       $ 110,200        
  

 

 

    

 

 

      

Holders of the MRP Shares are entitled to receive cumulative cash dividend payments on the first business day following each quarterly period (February 28, May 31, August 31 and November 30).

As of May 31, 2015, each series of the Fund’s MRP Shares was rated “AA” by FitchRatings. The dividend rate on the Fund’s MRP Shares will increase between 0.5% and 4.0% if the credit rating is downgraded below “A” by FitchRatings. Further, the annual dividend rate for all series of MRP Shares will increase by 4.0% if no ratings are maintained, and the annual dividend rate will increase by 5.0% if the Fund fails to make quarterly dividend or certain other payments. The Fund is required to maintain a current rating from one rating agency with respect to each series of MRP Shares.

The MRP Shares rank senior to all of the Fund’s outstanding common shares and on parity with any other preferred stock. The MRP Shares are redeemable in certain circumstances at the option of the Fund and is also subject to a mandatory redemption if the Fund fails to meet a total leverage (debt and preferred stock) asset coverage ratio of 225% or fails to maintain its basic maintenance amount as stated in the Fund’s rating agency guidelines.

Under the terms of the MRP Shares, the Fund may not declare dividends or make other distributions on shares of its common stock or make purchases of such shares if, at any time of the declaration, distribution or purchase, asset coverage with respect to total leverage would be less than 225%.

The holders of the MRP Shares have one vote per share and will vote together with the holders of common stock as a single class except on matters affecting only the holders of MRP Shares or the holders of common stock. The holders of the MRP Shares, voting separately as a single class, have the right to elect at least two directors of the Fund.

At May 31, 2015, the Fund was in compliance with the asset coverage and basic maintenance requirements of its MRP Shares.

 

13. Common Stock

At May 31, 2015, the Fund had 195,800,000 shares of common stock authorized and 21,663,136 shares outstanding. As of that date, KAFA owned 4,000 shares. Transactions in common shares for the six months ended May 31, 2015 were as follows:

 

Shares outstanding at November 30, 2014

     21,621,933   

Shares issued through reinvestment of distributions

     41,203   
  

 

 

 

Shares outstanding at May 31, 2015

     21,663,136   
  

 

 

 

 

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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(amount in 000’s, except number of option contracts, share and per share)

(UNAUDITED)

 

 

14. Subsequent Events

On June 24, 2015, the Fund declared its quarterly distribution of $0.51 per common share for the second quarter of fiscal 2015 for a total quarterly distribution payment of $11,048. On June 24, 2015, the Fund also declared a special distribution of $38,994 or $1.80 per common share. This special distribution was made in order to avoid being subject to federal income taxes on undistributed ordinary income and long-term capital gains. See Note 6 — Taxes. Both the quarterly distribution and the special distribution were paid July 17, 2015 to common stockholders. Of this total, pursuant to the Fund’s dividend reinvestment plan $5,736 was reinvested into the Fund through open market purchases of common stock.

On July 13, 2015, the Fund filed a request with the Internal Revenue Service to change the tax accounting method used to compute the adjusted tax cost basis of its MLP securities to the average cost method. See Note 2 — Significant Accounting Policies and Note 6 — Taxes.

On July 23, 2015, Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P. (the managing member of KAFA) and Ares Management, L.P. entered into a definitive merger agreement (the “Merger”) to create Ares Kayne Management, L.P. The Merger is expected to close on or around January 1, 2016, subject to customary regulatory approvals and other closing conditions. Under the terms of the Fund’s investment management agreement, the Merger would cause a technical change of control at KAFA (the Fund’s investment adviser), resulting in a termination of the current investment management agreement. For that reason a new investment management agreement will need to be approved by stockholders before the closing of the Merger. In the coming weeks, stockholders will receive proxy materials related to a special stockholder meeting that will be called for the purpose of considering and voting on a new investment management agreement. Those proxy materials will contain more information about the Merger and the proposed new investment management agreement. Under the terms of the Fund’s Credit Facility and Term Loan, the Merger would be considered a change of control and requires the consent of such lenders. The Fund is in the process of obtaining such consents.

The Fund has performed an evaluation of subsequent events through the date the financial statements were issued and has determined that no additional items require recognition or disclosure.

 

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GLOSSARY OF KEY TERMS

(UNAUDITED)

 

This glossary contains definitions of certain key terms, as they are used in our investment objective and policies and as described in this report. These definitions may not correspond to standard sector definitions.

“Energy Assets” means assets that are used in the energy sector, including assets used in exploring, developing, producing, generating, transporting, transmitting, storing, gathering, processing, refining, distributing, mining or marketing of natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil, refined products, coal or electricity.

“Energy Companies” means companies that own and operate Energy Assets or provide energy-related services. For purposes of this definition, this includes companies that (i) derive at least 50% of their revenues or operating income from operating Energy Assets or providing services for the operation of such Energy Assets or (ii) have Energy Assets that represent the majority of their assets.

“General Partner MLPs” means Master Limited Partnerships whose assets consist of ownership interests of an affiliated Master Limited Partnership (which may include general partnership interests, incentive distribution rights, common units and subordinated units).

“Master Limited Partnerships” means limited partnerships and limited liability companies that are publicly traded and are treated as partnerships for federal income tax purposes.

“Midstream Assets” means assets used in energy logistics, including, but not limited to, assets used in transporting, storing, gathering, processing, distributing, or marketing of natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil or refined products.

“Midstream Companies” means companies, other than Midstream MLPs, that own and operate Midstream Assets and are taxed as corporations for federal income tax purposes. This includes companies structured like MLPs, but not treated as a publicly-traded partnership for RIC qualification purposes. For purposes of this definition, this includes companies that (i) derive at least 50% of their revenue or operating income from operating Midstream Assets or (ii) have Midstream Assets that represent the majority of their assets.

“Midstream/Energy Sector” consists of (a) Midstream MLPs, (b) Midstream Companies, (c) Other MLPs and (d) Other Energy Companies.

“Midstream Sector” consists of (a) Midstream MLPs and (b) Midstream Companies.

“Midstream MLPs” means MLPs that principally own and operate Midstream Assets. Midstream MLPs also include (a) MLPs that provide transportation and distribution services of energy related products through the ownership of marine transportation vessels, (b) General Partner MLPs whose assets consist of ownership interests of an affiliated Midstream MLP and (c) MLP Affiliates of Midstream MLPs.

“MLPs” means entities that are structured as Master Limited Partnerships and their affiliates and includes Midstream MLPs, Other MLPs and MLP Affiliates.

“MLP Affiliates” means affiliates of Master Limited Partnerships, substantially all of whose assets consist of i-units. MLP Affiliates are not treated as partnerships for federal income tax purposes.

“Other Energy Companies” means Energy Companies, excluding MLPs and Midstream Companies.

“Other MLPs” consists of (a) upstream MLPs, (b) coal MLPs, (c) propane MLPs and (d) MLPs that operate other energy assets or provide energy-related services.

 

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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

PRIVACY POLICY NOTICE

(UNAUDITED)

 

Rev. 01/2011

 

FACTS

   WHAT DOES KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC. (“KMF”) DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
  

Why?

   Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.
  

What?

  

The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:

 

n   Social Security number and account balances

 

n   Payment history and transaction history

 

n   Account transactions and wire transfer instructions

 

When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.

  

How?

   All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers’ personal information; the reasons KMF chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.

 

Reasons we can share your personal information   Does KMF share?   Can you limit
this sharing?
For our everyday business purposes —
such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus
  Yes   No
For our marketing purposes —
to offer our products and services to you
  No   No
For joint marketing with other financial companies   No   We don’t share
For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes —
information about your transactions and experiences
  No   We don’t share
For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes —
information about your creditworthiness
  No   We don’t share
For nonaffiliates to market to you   No   We don’t share

 

Questions?

   Call 877-657-3863 or go to http://www.kaynefunds.com

 

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PRIVACY POLICY NOTICE

(UNAUDITED)

 

Who we are
Who is providing this notice?   KMF
 
What we do     
How does KMF
protect my personal information?
 

To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include computer safeguards and secured files and buildings.

 

Access to your personal information is on a need-to-know basis. KMF has adopted internal policies to protect your non-public personal information.

How does KMF
collect my personal information?
 

We collect your personal information, for example, when you

 

n   Open an account or provide account information

 

n   Buy securities from us or make a wire transfer

 

n   Give us your contact information

 

We also collect your personal information from other companies.

Why can’t I limit all sharing?  

Federal law gives you the right to limit only

 

n   sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes — information about your creditworthiness

 

n   affiliates from using your information to market to you

 

n   sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you

 

State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.

 
Definitions     
Affiliates  

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

n   KMF does not share with our affiliates.

Nonaffiliates  

Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

n   KMF does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you.

Joint marketing  

A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

 

n   KMF doesn’t jointly market.

 
Other important information     
None.    

 

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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

DIVIDEND REINVESTMENT PLAN

(UNAUDITED)

 

Kayne Anderson Midstream/Energy Fund, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Fund”), has adopted the following plan (the “Plan”) with respect to distributions declared by its Board of Directors (the “Board”) on shares of its Common Stock:

1. Unless a stockholder specifically elects to receive cash as set forth below, all distributions hereafter declared by the Board shall be payable in shares of the Common Stock of the Fund, and no action shall be required on such stockholder’s part to receive a distribution in stock.

2. Such distributions shall be payable on such date or dates as may be fixed from time to time by the Board to stockholders of record at the close of business on the record date(s) established by the Board for the distribution involved.

3. The Fund may use newly-issued shares of its Common Stock or purchase shares in the open market in connection with the implementation of the plan. The number of shares to be issued to a stockholder shall be based on share price equal to 95% of the closing price of the Fund’s Common Stock one day prior to the dividend payment date.

4. The Board may, in its sole discretion, instruct the Fund to purchase shares of its Common Stock in the open market in connection with the implementation of the Plan as follows: If the Fund’s Common Stock is trading below net asset value at the time of valuation, upon notice from the Fund, the Plan Administrator (as defined below) will receive the dividend or distribution in cash and will purchase Common Stock in the open market, on the New York Stock Exchange or elsewhere, for the Participants’ accounts, except that the Plan Administrator will endeavor to terminate purchases in the open market and cause the Fund to issue the remaining shares if, following the commencement of the purchases, the market value of the shares, including brokerage commissions, exceeds the net asset value at the time of valuation. These remaining shares will be issued by the Fund at a price equal to the greater of (i) the net asset value at the time of valuation or (ii) 95% of the then current market price.

5. In a case where the Plan Administrator has terminated open market purchases and caused the issuance of remaining shares by the Fund, the number of shares received by the participant in respect of the cash dividend or distribution will be based on the weighted average of prices paid for shares purchased in the open market, including brokerage commissions, and the price at which the Fund issues remaining shares. To the extent that the Plan Administrator is unable to terminate purchases in the open market before the Plan Administrator has completed its purchases, or remaining shares cannot be issued by the Fund because the Fund declared a dividend or distribution payable only in cash, and the market price exceeds the net asset value of the shares, the average share purchase price paid by the Plan Administrator may exceed the net asset value of the shares, resulting in the acquisition of fewer shares than if the dividend or distribution had been paid in shares issued by the Fund.

6. A stockholder may, however, elect to receive his or its distributions in cash. To exercise this option, such stockholder shall notify American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the plan administrator and the Fund’s transfer agent and registrar (collectively the “Plan Administrator”), in writing so that such notice is received by the Plan Administrator no later than the record date fixed by the Board for the distribution involved.

7. The Plan Administrator will set up an account for shares acquired pursuant to the Plan for each stockholder who has not so elected to receive dividends and distributions in cash (each, a “Participant”). The Plan Administrator may hold each Participant’s shares, together with the shares of other Participants, in non-certificated form in the Plan Administrator’s name or that of its nominee. Upon request by a Participant, received no later than three (3) days prior to the payable date, the Plan Administrator will, instead of crediting shares to and/or carrying shares in a Participant’s account, issue, without charge to the Participant, a certificate registered in the Participant’s name for the number of whole shares payable to the Participant and a check for any fractional share less a broker commission on the sale of such fractional shares. If a

 

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DIVIDEND REINVESTMENT PLAN

(UNAUDITED)

 

request to terminate a Participant’s participation in the Plan is received less than three (3) days before the payable date, dividends and distributions for that payable date will be reinvested. However, subsequent dividends and distributions will be paid to the Participant in cash.

8. The Plan Administrator will confirm to each Participant each acquisition made pursuant to the Plan as soon as practicable but not later than ten (10) business days after the date thereof. Although each Participant may from time to time have an undivided fractional interest (computed to three decimal places) in a share of Common Stock of the Fund, no certificates for a fractional share will be issued. However, dividends and distributions on fractional shares will be credited to each Participant’s account. In the event of termination of a Participant’s account under the Plan, the Plan Administrator will adjust for any such undivided fractional interest in cash at the market value of the Fund’s shares at the time of termination.

9. The Plan Administrator will forward to each Participant any Fund related proxy solicitation materials and each Corporation report or other communication to stockholders, and will vote any shares held by it under the Plan in accordance with the instructions set forth on proxies returned by Participants to the Fund.

10. In the event that the Fund makes available to its stockholders rights to purchase additional shares or other securities, the shares held by the Plan Administrator for each Participant under the Plan will be added to any other shares held by the Participant in certificated form in calculating the number of rights to be issued to the Participant.

11. The Plan Administrator’s service fee, if any, and expenses for administering the Plan will be paid for by the Fund.

12. Each Participant may terminate his or its account under the Plan by so notifying the Plan Administrator via the Plan Administrator’s website at www.amstock.com, by filling out the transaction request form located at the bottom of the Participant’s Statement and sending it to American Stock Transfer and Trust Company, P.O. Box 922, Wall Street Station, New York, NY 10269-0560 or by calling the Plan Administrator at (888) 888-0317. Such termination will be effective immediately. The Plan may be terminated by the Fund upon notice in writing mailed to each Participant at least 30 days prior to any record date for the payment of any dividend or distribution by the Fund. Upon any termination, the Plan Administrator will cause a certificate or certificates to be issued for the full shares held for the Participant under the Plan and a cash adjustment for any fractional share to be delivered to the Participant without charge to the Participant. If a Participant elects by his or its written notice to the Plan Administrator in advance of termination to have the Plan Administrator sell part or all of his or its shares and remit the proceeds to the Participant, the Plan Administrator is authorized to deduct a $15.00 transaction fee plus a $0.10 per share brokerage commission from the proceeds.

13. These terms and conditions may be amended or supplemented by the Fund at any time but, except when necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable law or the rules or policies of the Securities and Exchange Commission or any other regulatory authority, only by mailing to each Participant appropriate written notice at least 30 days prior to the effective date thereof. The amendment or supplement shall be deemed to be accepted by each Participant unless, prior to the effective date thereof, the Plan Administrator receives written notice of the termination of his or its account under the Plan. Any such amendment may include an appointment by the Plan Administrator in its place and stead of a successor agent under these terms and conditions, with full power and authority to perform all or any of the acts to be performed by the Plan Administrator under these terms and conditions. Upon any such appointment of any agent for the purpose of receiving dividends and distributions, the Fund will be authorized to pay to such successor agent, for each Participant’s account, all dividends and distributions payable on shares of the Fund held in the Participant’s name or under the Plan for retention or application by such successor agent as provided in these terms and conditions.

 

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DIVIDEND REINVESTMENT PLAN

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14. The Plan Administrator will at all times act in good faith and use its best efforts within reasonable limits to ensure its full and timely performance of all services to be performed by it under this Plan and to comply with applicable law, but assumes no responsibility and shall not be liable for loss or damage due to errors unless such error is caused by the Plan Administrator’s negligence, bad faith, or willful misconduct or that of its employees or agents.

15. These terms and conditions shall be governed by the laws of the State of Maryland.

Adopted: November 18, 2010

 

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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

PROXY VOTING AND PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS INFORMATION

(UNAUDITED)

 

The policies and procedures that the Fund uses to determine how to vote proxies relating to its portfolio securities are available:

 

   

without charge, upon request, by calling (877) 657-3863/MLP-FUND;

 

   

on the Fund’s website, http://www.kaynefunds.com; and

 

   

on the SEC’s website, http://www.sec.gov.

Information regarding how the Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available without charge, upon request, by calling (877) 657-3863/MLP-FUND, and on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov (see Form N-PX).

The Fund files a complete schedule of its portfolio holdings for the first and third quarters of each of its fiscal years with the SEC on Form N-Q and Form N-30B-2. The Fund’s Form N-Q and Form N-30B-2 are available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov and may be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information on the operation of the SEC’s Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. The Fund also makes its Form N-Q and Form N-30B-2 available on its website at http://www.kaynefunds.com.

REPURCHASE DISCLOSURE

(UNAUDITED)

Notice is hereby given in accordance with Section 23(c) of the 1940 Act, that the Fund may from time to time purchase shares of its common and preferred stock and its Notes in the open market or in a privately negotiated transactions.

 

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KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY FUND, INC.

RESULTS OF ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

(UNAUDITED)

 

On June 25, 2015, the Fund held its annual meeting of stockholders where the following matters were approved by stockholders. As of the record date of May 8, 2015 (the “Record Date”), the Fund had 21,663,136 outstanding shares of common stock and 4,200,000 outstanding shares of mandatory redeemable preferred stock, each of which was entitled to cast one vote. Represented in person or by proxy at this meeting were a total of 23,486,328 shares of common stock and mandatory redeemable preferred stock, constituting a quorum.

 

  (i) The election of Barry R. Pearl and William L. Thacker as Class II directors; each to serve for a term of three years until the Fund’s 2018 annual meeting of stockholders and until his successor is duly elected and qualified.

The election of Mr. Thacker required the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the Fund’s mandatory redeemable preferred stock outstanding as of the Record Date. On this matter, 4,200,000 shares were cast in favor of Mr. Thacker.

The election of Mr. Pearl required the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of shares of the Fund’s common stock and mandatory redeemable preferred stock outstanding as of the Record Date, voting together as a single class. On this matter, 23,061,744 shares were cast in favor, 263,875 shares were cast against, and 160,707 shares withheld authority in the election of Mr. Pearl.

As a result of the vote on this matter, Mr. Pearl and Mr. Thacker were each elected to serve as a director of the Fund for a three-year term.

William R. Cordes and Albert L. Richey continued as directors with terms expiring on the date of the Fund’s 2016 annual meeting of stockholders; Kevin S. McCarthy continued as a director with a term expiring on the date of the Fund’s 2017 annual meeting of stockholders.

 

  (ii) Proposal two does not apply to Kayne Anderson Midstream/Energy Fund, Inc. (KMF).

 

  (iii) The ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Fund’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending November 30, 2015.

Approval of this proposal required the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by the holders of the Fund’s common stock and mandatory redeemable preferred stock outstanding as of the Record Date, voting together as a single class. For purposes of this proposal, each share of common stock and each share of mandatory redeemable preferred stock is entitled to one vote. For purposes of the vote on this proposal, abstentions and broker non-votes will not be counted as votes cast and will have no effect on the result of the vote.

On this matter, 23,205,083 shares were cast in favor, 168,108 shares were cast against, 113,137 shares abstained, and there were no broker non-votes.

As a result of the vote on this matter, the proposal was approved.

 

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Directors and Corporate Officers   
Kevin S. McCarthy   

Chairman of the Board of Directors,

President and Chief Executive Officer

William R. Cordes    Director
Barry R. Pearl    Director
Albert L. Richey    Director
William L. Thacker    Director
Terry A. Hart    Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
David J. Shladovsky    Secretary
Michael O’Neil    Chief Compliance Officer
J.C. Frey    Executive Vice President, Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Treasurer
James C. Baker    Executive Vice President
Ron M. Logan, Jr.    Senior Vice President
Jody C. Meraz    Vice President
Investment Adviser
KA Fund Advisors, LLC
811 Main Street, 14th Floor
Houston, TX 77002
   Administrator
Ultimus Fund Solutions, LLC
225 Pictoria Drive, Suite 450
Cincinnati, OH 45246
1800 Avenue of the Stars, Third Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
  

Stock Transfer Agent and Registrar
American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC
6201 15th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11219

(888) 888-0317

Custodian
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
14201 North Dallas Parkway, Second Floor
Dallas, TX 75254
   Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
601 S. Figueroa Street, Suite 900
Los Angeles, CA 90017
   Legal Counsel
Paul Hastings LLP
55 Second Street, 24th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105

Please visit us on the web at http://www.kaynefunds.com or call us toll-free at 1-877-657-3863.

 

LOGO

This report, including the financial statements herein, is made available to stockholders of the Fund for their information. It is not a prospectus, circular or representation intended for use in the purchase or sale of shares of the Fund or of any securities mentioned in this report.


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Item 2. Code of Ethics.

Not applicable.

Item 3. Audit Committee Financial Expert.

Not applicable.

Item 4. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

Not applicable.

Item 5. Audit Committee of Listed Registrants.

Not applicable.

Item 6. Investments.

(a) Please see the schedule of investments contained in the KMF Semi-Annual Report for the six months ended May 31, 2015 included under Item 1 of this Form N-CSR.

(b) Not applicable.

Item 7. Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

Not applicable.

Item 8. Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

Not applicable.

Item 9. Purchases of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Company and Affiliated Purchasers.

REGISTRANT PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

 

Period

   (a)
Total Number of
Shares
Purchased
    (b)
Average Price
Paid
per Share
     (c)
Total Number  of
Shares

Purchased as
Part of Publicly

Announced
Plans or Programs
     (d)
Maximum
Number (or
Approximate
Dollar Value) of
Shares that May
Yet Be Purchased
Under the

Plans or
Programs
 

April 24, 2015 to April 30, 2015

     42,266   $ 34.73         —           Not applicable.   

 

* Specified shares were purchased in the open market pursuant to the terms of the Registrant’s Automatic Dividend Reinvestment Plan, adopted November 18, 2010.

Item 10. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

None.

Item 11. Controls and Procedures.

(a) The Registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer have evaluated the Registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”)) as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report and have concluded that the Registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective, as of such date, based on the evaluation of these controls and procedures required by Rule 30a-3(b) under the 1940 Act and Rule 13a-15(b) or 15d-15(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

(b) There were no changes in the Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the 1940 Act) that occurred during the second fiscal quarter of the period covered by this report that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.


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Item 12. Exhibits.

(a)(1) Not applicable to semi-annual reports.

(a)(2) Separate certifications of Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer of the Registrant pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 attached hereto as EX-99.CERT.

(b) Certification of Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer of the Registrant pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 attached hereto as EX-99.906 CERT.


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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

   

KAYNE ANDERSON MIDSTREAM/ENERGY

FUND, INC.

  
Date: July 29, 2015     By:  

/s/ KEVIN S. MCCARTHY

  
      Kevin S. McCarthy   
      Chairman of the Board of Directors,   
      President and Chief Executive Officer   

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Date: July 29, 2015     By:  

/s/ KEVIN S. MCCARTHY

  
      Kevin S. McCarthy   
      Chairman of the Board of Directors,   
      President and Chief Executive Officer   
Date: July 29, 2015     By:  

/s/ TERRY A. HART

  
      Terry A. Hart   
      Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer   


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Exhibit Index

(a)(1) Not applicable to semi-annual reports.

(a)(2) Separate certifications of Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer of the Registrant pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 attached hereto as EX-99.CERT.

(b) Certification of Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer of the Registrant pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 attached hereto as EX-99.906 CERT.