Goldman Sachs MLP and Energy Renaissance Fund has acquired Goldman Sachs MLP Income Opportunities Fund. Goldman Sachs MLP Income Opportunities Fund is a closed ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. It invests in the public equity markets of the United States. The fund seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating in the energy sector. It primarily invests in "midstream" master limited partnerships that are engaged in the treatment, gathering, compression, processing, transportation, transmission, fractionation, storage, and termination of natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil, refined products or coal. It employs fundamental analysis along with top-down sector selection and bottom-up security selection approaches, focusing on such factors a company’s management, assets, expected returns, and technical to create its portfolio. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Alerian MLP Index Total Return. Goldman Sachs MLP Income Opportunities Fund was formed on June 18, 2013 and is domiciled in the United States.