EFT News and Press, Eaton Vance Floating Rate Income Trust of Beneficial Interest From 07/13/22

AIF is a closed-end fund with a 70/30 leveraged loans/high yield bonds allocation. The fund comes from a premier asset manager in Apollo and leverages the manager's deep investment platform. AIF has a high concentration of "B" and "CCC" credits, which account for over 70% of the u...

MCI is a fixed income CEF focused on private placement securities. The fund was first offered to the public in 1971 and specializes on middle-market leveraged loans. MCI is similar to a BDC in many aspects but has a better historical performance and risk/reward metrics than a numb...

Even though Stock and Bond markets aren't the "casinos" investors thought they were 100 years ago in the "Roaring '20s," investors are still always "betting" on some scenario. We may be betting on a company excelling and growing; or on its merely continuing to perform at its current l...

Floating-rate bonds are supposed to be sailing right now. So why are they sinking ? Last week we lamented the reason most bond funds are down this year . The runaway long rate is to blame. Ten-year Treasury bonds began the year yielding 1.5%. Now, they pay 2.4%, a wh...

The Eaton Vance Senior Floating-Rate Trust (EFR) is the larger of the three CEFs EV has that benchmark against the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index. The Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust (EFT) is slightly smaller and a little younger and follows the same benchmark. This article ...

The iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF (FLOT) invests in Investment-Grade floating rate notes based on the Bloomberg Barclays US Floating Rate Note < 5 Years Index. While recent performance has been near the top amongst Floating-Rate funds, its long-term results are on the bottom of th...

Eaton Vance Management Announces Portfolio Managers of Certain Floating-Rate Loan Funds PR Newswire BOSTON , March 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eaton Vance Management ("Eaton Vance"), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), announced the por...

Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust Announces Telephonic Annual Meeting Of Shareholders On March 17, 2022 PR Newswire BOSTON , March 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The following notice relates to the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income ...

As we enter the first quarter of 2022, we are inching closer to the eventual rate hikes from the Fed. The 10-Year Treasury has already been on the move, heading higher while we are only a few weeks into the new year. This has put jitters in the market; notably, "long duration" ass...

Eaton Vance Floating Rate Income Trust (NYSE:EFT) declares $0.0775/share monthly dividend, in line with previous. Forward yield 6.35% Payable Dec. 31; for shareholders of record Dec. 24; ex-div Dec. 23. See EFT Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. For further details see:...