EFF News and Press, Eaton vance Floating-Rate Income Plus Fund of Beneficial Interest From 02/04/21

Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Plus Fund (EFF) declares $0.062/share monthly dividend, -1.6% decrease from prior dividend of $0.063.Forward yield 4.71%Payable Feb. 26; for shareholders of record Feb. 19; ex-div Feb. 18.See EFF Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. For fu...

2021 will be a challenging year for bond investors, as we are starting off with low interest rates and rising inflation, explains Marvin Appel of Signalert Asset Management. As a result, I believe the most productive strategy for 2021 will be to search for higher yields in the form of...

A check-up on Eaton Vance's option strategy funds. A heavier exposure to tech in several of their funds led to some relatively strong returns in 2020. The biggest news from Eaton Vance as a whole is the acquisition by Morgan Stanley. For further details see: Closed-End F...

Eaton Vance boasts 5 loan CEFs which behave similarly to each other due to sharing many holdings. We take a look at discount valuation, funds fees and leverage costs, historic returns and distribution coverage. Among the four perpetual CEFs, we like EFR due to its relatively wide ...

12 out of 23 CEF sectors positive on price and 13 out of 23 sectors positive on NAV last week as markets take a breather. MLPs lead while real estate lags. EHT unexpectedly boosts its distribution as it enters its final year. For further details see: Weekly Closed-End Fu...

November was one of the best months for markets in general and that includes CEFs, which rallied hard. Our Core Portfolio was up 7.2% in the month. Discounts have tightened materially in the last month but still remain much wider than at the start of the year. We describe why we t...

EVT is a levered diversified fund offered by Eaton Vance. The fund is overweight financials, which led to underperformance of the broader market this year. Due to the fund's discount and allocation to the undervalued financial sector, I believe EVT is now a solid buy. For fu...

Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Plus Fund (EFF) declares $0.063/share monthly dividend, 5% increase from prior dividend of $0.060.Forward yield 4.96%Payable Dec. 31; for shareholders of record Dec. 24; ex-div Dec. 23.See EFF Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. For furth...

23 out of 23 CEF sectors positive on price and 23 out of 23 sectors positive on NAV last week as election volatility subsides. NHF tender offer begins, with an expiration date of December 10, 2020. We discuss RIV's rights offering results in a separate report. For further de...

Morgan Stanley announced the acquisition of Eaton Vance. This could trigger activists into action once again. The floating-rate CEFs appear to already have large activist stakes. EFF could be the easiest target for Saba to extract concessions from. For further details se...