EOI News and Press, Eaton Vance Enhance Equity Income Fundd Equity Income Fund Shares of Beneficial Interest From 12/09/22

Summary Eaton Vance offers what may be the most popular equity-based closed-end funds available to income investors. As a result, the funds have been trading at mostly premium-market price valuations for some time. But all that momentum changed when on Nov. 1, Eaton Vance cut the distri...

Summary 12 out of 23 CEF sectors positive on price and 6 out of 23 sectors positive on NAV last week. Tortoise offer tender results. NCZ resumes distributions, NCV holders should switch. Author's note: This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members ...

Summary Some Eaton Vance equity CEFs cut their distributions. As expected, the most overvalued CEFs dropped the most on the news. Remember CEF investors: don't just look at the yield. Author's note: This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members as ...

First line in first table of release dated November 1, 2022 should read: Declaration – 11/1/2022 Ex-Date – 11/9/2022 Record – 11/10/2022 Payable – 11/18/2022 The updated release reads: DISTRIBUTION DATES AND AMOUNTS ANNOUNCED FOR EATON VANCE CLOSED-...

Summary Many Americans are looking for additional sources of income to help offset rising food and energy bills. BOE invests in a portfolio of dividend-paying stocks from around the world and writes covered call options against them to generate income. The fund lacks exposure ...

Summary The Eaton Vance Enhanced Equity Income Fund (EOI) invests primarily in large- and mid-cap securities that have above-average growth and financial strength and writes call options on individual holdings. As with many enhanced income equity funds, EOI achieves the first comp...

Summary Investors desperately need new sources of income to maintain their current standard of living in today's inflationary environment. The EOI CEF uses a covered call options strategy to give its investors an 8.33% yield. The fund is very heavily weighted towards the mega-...

It's been a stellar month+ for the more aggressive and leveraged equity CEFs with the more defensive option-income CEFs having more mixed results. Generally speaking, option-income CEFs that sell a low percentage of options against their portfolio have performed better than option fun...

We review CEF market valuation and performance through the last week of July and highlight recent market action. CEFs had a great July, erasing all of the June losses. We highlight one take on distribution coverage which makes little sense and which can mislead investors. And ...

The Enhanced Equity Income Fund (EOI) is a closed end fund from the "buy-write" Eaton Vance family. The CEF displays a historic total return performance that closely matches the one seen in the S&P 500. The fund currently has an 8.4% dividend yield paid monthly and has a ...