EFT News and Press, Eaton Vance Floating Rate Income Trust of Beneficial Interest From 03/29/21

Favorite liquidation at NAV exit strategy for excess returns is the Eaton Vance Short Duration Diversified Income Fund (EVG), whose shareholders already voted once in January with an outcome NOT to approve a new advisory agreement. EVG's control shareholder SIT Investment Associates w...

Results of Joint Special Shareholder Meeting of Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust, Eaton Vance New York Municipal Income Trust and Eaton Vance Senior Floating-Rate Trust PR Newswire BOSTON , March 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- At a joint special meeting of shareh...

We've seen a lot of volatility in the last month across all risk assets, but closed-end funds have weathered it quite well. Taxables have performed much better than municipal CEFs which have been hit on NAV from rising interest rates. Balancing the portfolio between credit risks a...

Eaton Vance Floating Rate Income Trust (EFT) had declared $0.062/share monthly dividend, -1.6% decrease from prior dividend of $0.063.Payable March 31; for shareholders of record March 24; ex-div March 23.See EFT Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. For further detai...

13 out of 23 CEF sectors positive on price and 13 out of 23 sectors positive on NAV last week. MLPs lead while commodities lag. BSTZ/BMEZ boosts distributions by +48.7% and +45.0% respectively. For further details see: Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup: March 7, 2021

Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust and Eaton Vance Senior Floating-Rate Trust Announce Conditional Tender Offers and Conditional Distribution Rate Increases; Eaton Vance New York Municipal Income Trust Announces Conditional Tender Offer PR Newswire BOSTON , Mar...

2 out of 23 CEF sectors positive on price and 2 out of 23 sectors positive on NAV last week. MLPs lead, while Asia equity lags. Some Nuveen funds increase distributions due to adoption of a level distribution policy. For further details see: Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundu...

The loan space continues to see inflows which should be supportive of NAVs. As NAVs increase, they can increase leverage supporting distributions. Loan funds remain one of the cheapest asset classes in the CEF spectrum with five-year z-scores that are barely positive. We like KIO ...

Results of Special Shareholder Meeting of Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Plus Fund (EFF) and Joint Special Shareholder Meeting of Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust (EFT), Eaton Vance New York Municipal Income Trust (EVY) and Eaton Vance Senior Floating-Rate Trust (EFR) PR...

I analyzed 80 bond funds two weeks ago and identified the best funds and blended bond fund portfolio. Two new outstanding bond funds - Metropolitan West Flexible Income and Metropolitan West Strategic Income - were identified after the previous analysis was completed. Analysis sho...