EVG - Eaton Vance Short Duration Diversified Income Fund

What this means for you

Sit Investment has told the regulator it may push for changes at this fund. That usually means asking the fund to buy back shares at close to the full value of its holdings, to change who runs it, or to close down and pay holders out.

Nothing is required of you now. If the fund itself announces a buy-back or a vote, it appears in the box above with the date by which you would need to act.

Large investors can also sell down and walk away. We show every notice they file, the day it is filed.

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What happened, and when

1. Oct 1, 2026

   Sit Investment raised its stake to 5.8% (from 5.2%), as a passive investor.

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2. Aug 14, 2026

   Ameriprise Financial raised its stake to 13.6% (from 12.4%), as a passive investor.

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3. May 15, 2026

   Ameriprise Financial raised its stake to 12.4% (from 11.3%), as a passive investor.

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4. Feb 5, 2026

   Sit Investment cut its stake to 5.2% (from 6.4%). It has said it may push for changes.

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5. Nov 14, 2025

   Ameriprise Financial raised its stake to 11.3% (from 10.1%), as a passive investor.

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About this fund

• Run by Eaton Vance Management. Part of the Eaton Vance fund family. As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
• Size: about $149 million of holdings, as of July 31, 2026. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Borrowing: the fund borrows about 19% on top of its own money, as of July 31, 2026. Borrowed money makes gains and losses bigger. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Costs: 1.1% a year in management fees; 2.8% a year in total, including interest on borrowed money. Fiscal year ended Oct 31, 2025. As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
  Among the 90 funds we follow that invest in bonds, 46 charge a lower management fee and 33 charge less in total, at their last yearly reports. Both numbers are measured against the fund's own money, not the money it borrows on top, so a fund that borrows more shows higher costs on both counts.
• Payouts: last fiscal year (ended Oct 31, 2025) the fund paid $0.90 a share. $0.73 of that was income; $0.17 was your own money back, not income. Most funds announce their monthly or quarterly payout on their own website, not in a filing with the regulator, so a cut or a raise there does not show up here until the next yearly report. A few funds do file a notice about a fixed payout; those appear under What happened, and when. As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Value of holdings per share at the last fiscal year end (Oct 31, 2025): $11.38. The shares traded at $11.23, about 1.3% below that. As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
• How the holdings did: up 0.9% over the last three months we have (May-July 2026), before the share price is taken into account. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• First reported to the regulator in 2004.

How this has changed

• Payouts per share: $0.90 in the fiscal year ended Oct 31, 2025; $0.94 in the year ended Oct 31, 2024; $0.98 in the year ended Oct 31, 2023.As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Of that, your own money back rather than income: $0.17 in the year ended Oct 31, 2025; $0.12 in the year ended Oct 31, 2024; $0.11 in the year ended Oct 31, 2023.As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Costs, including interest on borrowed money: 2.77% a year in the fiscal year ended Oct 31, 2025; 3.07% a year in the year ended Oct 31, 2024; 2.68% a year in the year ended Oct 31, 2023.As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Size of the holdings: about $153 million at Oct 31, 2025; $150 million at Oct 31, 2024; $141 million at Oct 31, 2023. From the fund's quarterly holdings reports. Original documents: Oct 31, 2025 →, Oct 31, 2024 →, Oct 31, 2023 →.
• Borrowing: about 26% on top of its own money at Oct 31, 2025; 25% at Oct 31, 2024; 26% at Oct 31, 2023. From the fund's quarterly holdings reports. Original documents: Oct 31, 2025 →, Oct 31, 2024 →, Oct 31, 2023 →.
• The fund had about 13.5 million shares at Oct 31, 2025, about the same as at Oct 31, 2023.As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →

What these lines mean: a payout that is your own money back, what a fund costs, borrowing.

What a holder made

• The year ended Oct 31, 2025: the shares returned +9.1%, counting payouts; the holdings +10.3%. The holdings figure is what the fund's investments earned, before the share price is taken into account. As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Oct 31, 2024: the shares returned +22.3%, counting payouts; the holdings +16.1%. As of Oct 31, 2024, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Oct 31, 2023: the shares returned +2.9%, counting payouts; the holdings +10.2%. As of Oct 31, 2023, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Oct 31, 2022: the shares returned -12.7%, counting payouts; the holdings -12.7%. As of Oct 31, 2022, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Oct 31, 2021: the shares returned +23.9%, counting payouts; the holdings +9.3%. As of Oct 31, 2021, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Those five years together: the shares returned +48.5%. $10,000 of shares bought at the start (Nov 1, 2020) would have become about $14,800 by Oct 31, 2025, with every payout counted, before tax. As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The holdings over the last twelve months we have, to July 31, 2026: +6.8%. The quarterly reports carry no share price, so this is the holdings alone. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Of the 59 funds that invest in bonds with a fiscal year ending within six months of this one, 25 reported a higher share return for that year and 33 a lower one. As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• A past year says nothing about the next one. All figures are the fund's own, from its reports to the regulator.

Why the shares and the holdings can differ: the gap between price and value. Why payouts count: a payout that is your own money back.

What the fund holds

Mostly mortgage bonds (37%), the rest bonds, loans and asset-backed bonds. About 71% issued in the U.S.

1.9% of holdings are in default.

1. Government National Mortgage Association - 7.4%
2. Umbs, TBA, Uniform Mortgage-Backed Security, TBA - 7.1%
3. Cash and short-term - 6%
4. Freddie Mac REMICS - 4.7%
5. COMM Mortgage Trust, COMM 2013-CCRE11 Mortgage Trust - 1%
6. Magnetite CLO, Magnetite XXII Ltd - 1%
7. Harvest US CLO 2024-2 - 1%
8. Banc of America Merrill Lynch Large Loan, BAMLL Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust 2019-BPR - 1%
9. Madison Park Funding LV - 1%
10. Champs Trust 2025-1 - 0.9%

As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →