Eaton Vance Tax Advantaged Global Dividend Opportunities Fund

Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Opportunities Fund operates as a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. It engages in the investment in dividend-paying common and preferred stocks. The company was founded on April 30, 2004 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

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The world seeks complexity, but simplicity often trumps complexity. For my investment goals, I have made the choice to focus mainly on CEFs and ETFs, carefully weighing their merits and drawbacks.

My Income Portfolio - Keep It Simple, Sweetheart

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As in Led Zeppelin's famous song, for me, investments in high-dividend securities represent a kind of stairway to heaven. Indeed, their steady flow of money relieves psychological pressure during times of market uncertainty and helps me experience them with greater peace of mind.

My Income Portfolio: A Stairway To Heaven

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For income investors, closed-end funds remain an attractive investment class that covers a variety of asset classes and promises high distributions and reasonable total returns. Closed-end funds are generally characterized by higher volatility and deeper drawdowns than the broad market. For these reasons, they are not suited for everyone.

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Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Opportunities Fund invests in dividend-paying stocks from around the world. The ETO closed-end fund has underperformed the MSCI World Index, although that is not a perfect benchmark for the fund.

ETO: Earn Income From Around The World With This CEF

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Closed-end funds are great income investments thanks to tax laws and tradition. Being required to pay out most of their taxable gains explains a lot about how CEFs act.

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Financial markets are set to close a difficult year amid the war in Ukraine, pandemic aftershocks, and inflation-eroding purchasing power. As always, the first rule for every investor is to try to survive and avoid making mistakes that could prove fatal.

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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 distributions for virtually all of their equity CEFs, the first-cuts for many of their funds in years.

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Ten months of this troubling 2022 have passed, and my overall portfolio is beginning to take its final shape. Some positions have long since been completed, while for others, I am taking small acquisition steps each time the market turns downward.

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ETO invests in high dividend-paying stocks around the globe, half of which belong to three sectors - technology, healthcare and financial. ETO offers a monthly pay-out, and recorded an average yield in excess of 9 percent, though price performance has been extremely poor.

ETO: Globally Diversified CEF With A History Of Strong And Steady Yield

I've recently reviewed four high-yield CEFs and given them sell ratings. In this article, I cover another CEF, ETO, which I rate as a hold and would suggest is a better CEF than any of the four I've just covered.

A CEF Earning Its Distribution: ETO

ETO is a closed end fund with a global approach and an equity focus. The fund invests primarily in global dividend-paying common and preferred stocks, but also has a small fixed income allocation.

ETO: Global Dividend Fund, 7.7% Yield

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The price for certainty in the markets is too high; successful investors know this well. I am buying big dividends hand over fist in this fearful market.

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ETO focuses on developed country equities, high quality, profitable companies. Dividends have been very consistent over the last 5 years, paying $0.18 monthly, with a forward dividend yield of 8.6%.

ETO: A Quality-Focused Fund With Forward Dividend Yield Of 8.6%

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Go ahead, spice up your portfolio. Add some diversity and watch it blossom.

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ETO is quite similar to ETG; while I prefer ETG due to valuation, ETO could deserve a place in some investors' portfolios.

ETO: 7.54% Distribution Yield, Monthly Pay

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BOSTON, Feb. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The following notice relates to the combined Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Eaton Vance Short Duration Diversified Income Fund (NYSE: EVG) and Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Opportunities Fund (NYSE: ETO): Notice That Annual Meeting Of Shareholders Will Be A Telephonic Meeting Due to the public health impact of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) and to support the health and well-being of our shareholders, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the combined Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Eaton Vance Short Duration Diversified Income Fund and Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Opportunities Fund (each, a "Fund" and together, the "Funds") to be held on Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time (the "Meeting") will be held in a telephonic format.

Certain Eaton Vance Closed-End Funds Announce Telephonic Annual Meeting Of Shareholders On February 10, 2022

NAV performance, discount on NAV, and leverage constitute the three main parameters of my rule of thumb to select funds for a long-term CEF portfolio.

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It remains very difficult for investors to obtain any sort of significant income off of their portfolio assets due to the policies of the Federal Reserve.

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A reliable selection criterion for building a portfolio of funds that are likely to produce above-average returns over the long haul is the goal of every CEF investor. For me, the flexible combination of a positive NAV since inception, discount on NAV, and leverage represents a practical rule of thumb for long-term CEF investing.

CEF Focus Investing - My Rule Of Thumb In Action

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This article reviews DivGro, my portfolio of dividend growth stocks. I provide a summary of transactions and indicate how those transactions affected DivGro's projected annual dividend income. This month is the first time my projected monthly dividend income topped $3,000!

Monthly Review Of DivGro: September 2021

In the years since I first discovered CEFs, I have focused on formulating the best selection criteria for building a portfolio of reliable securities over time. I have developed a personal rule of thumb for long-term CEF investing, obtained by the flexible combination of three basic parameters: positive NAV since inception, discount on NAV, and leverage.

A Rule Of Thumb For Long-Term CEF Investing

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If rationality is the winning weapon of the Capricorn, I hope it will help me in the field of finance, preventing me from acting on impulse in the short term. One of my recent decisions was to reduce my Cupolone Income Portfolio to 12 CEFs by liquidating my entire position in RNP.

My Income Portfolio - Opinions Of A Capricorn

ETO is a diversified global equities CEF. ETO is also one of the strongest, best-performing global equities CEF in the market today.

ETO: Best-Performing Global Equities CEF, Strong 7.1% Distribution Yield

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The Net Asset Value (NAV) for a CEF remains, for me, a primary measure of its overall health.

My Income Portfolio - NAV Of My Life

The biggest problems with the portfolios of most Americans are an inability to generate income and a lack of global diversity - this fund solves both problems.

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