EXD News and Press, Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Bond of Beneficial Interest From 12/29/22

Summary Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Buy-Write Strategy Fund is set to be merged into its larger sister fund Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Buy-Write Opportunities Fund. The merger is still subject to shareholder approval. The two CEFs now exhibit significantly diverging premiums to NAV. A ...

Summary 2 out of 23 CEF sectors were positive on price and 2 out of 23 sectors were positive on NAV last week. VFL offers tender results. Why it pays to monitor your CEF holdings for corporate actions. Author's note: This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laborato...

Summary 2 out of 23 CEF sectors positive on price and 4 out of 23 sectors positive on NAV last week. DEX will merge with AGD. Self-tender of 30% of DEX shares will proceed next January. FEO successfully liquidated. For further details see: Weekly Closed...

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 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 ...

Summary The board of trustees for EXD and ETV have approved yesterday a merger of the two funds. The merger is subject to the EXD shareholders approval, scheduled for February 2023. The two CEFs are currently trading with similar premiums to NAV, so we do not expect a signific...

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 When buying closed-end funds, we often want to see discounts before picking up funds. For EXD, the fund has come to a premium now, but history suggests it might not have to be a sell. The overall equity slump makes it a fairly compelling time to start putting capital t...

Summary We all look to CEFs because of their high yields, but how often do you think about how much of that high yield you actually get to keep? Some funds claim they specialize in "tax-efficiency" by owning stocks that have qualified dividends while others specialize in 'tax-adva...

Summary 0 out of 23 CEF sectors positive on price and 1 out of 23 sectors positive on NAV last week. Real estate CEFs lag. OPP rights offering expires. Author’s note: This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on September 21, 2022. Pleas...