FFA - First Trust Enhanced Equity Income Fund

What this means for you

One large investor owns more than 5% of this fund but has told the regulator it is not seeking changes. That is common for banks, brokers and index funds that hold shares for their clients.

Nothing is required of you. If an investor changes its mind, it must file a new notice within days, and it will show up here.

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What happened, and when

1. Aug 5, 2025

   Morgan Stanley now owns 8.5%, as a passive investor.

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About this fund

• Run by First Trust Advisors L.P. Part of the First Trust Advisors L.P fund family. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
• Size: about $493 million of holdings, as of June 30, 2026. As of June 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Borrowing: the fund does not borrow. As of June 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Costs: 1% a year in management fees; 1.1% a year in total, including interest on borrowed money. Fiscal year ended Dec 31, 2025. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
  Among the 53 funds we follow that invest in shares, 22 charge a lower management fee and 17 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 Dec 31, 2025) the fund paid $1.48 a share. $0.09 of that was income; $1.39 came from gains. 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 Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Value of holdings per share at the last fiscal year end (Dec 31, 2025): $23.72. The shares traded at $22.02, about 7.2% below that. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
• How the holdings did: up 9.6% over the last three months we have (April-June 2026), before the share price is taken into account. As of June 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• First reported to the regulator in 2004.

How this has changed

• Payouts per share: $1.48 in the fiscal year ended Dec 31, 2025; $1.37 in the year ended Dec 31, 2024; $1.26 in the year ended Dec 31, 2023.As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• None of those payouts was your own money back; all of it was income or gains.As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Costs, including interest on borrowed money: 1.12% a year in the fiscal year ended Dec 31, 2025; 1.12% a year in the year ended Dec 31, 2024; 1.16% a year in the year ended Dec 31, 2023.As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Size of the holdings: about $474 million at Dec 31, 2025; $423 million at Dec 31, 2024; $375 million at Dec 29, 2023. From the fund's quarterly holdings reports. Original documents: Dec 31, 2025 →, Dec 31, 2024 →, Dec 29, 2023 →.
• Borrowing: none at Dec 31, 2025; none at Dec 31, 2024; none at Dec 29, 2023. From the fund's quarterly holdings reports. Original documents: Dec 31, 2025 →, Dec 31, 2024 →, Dec 29, 2023 →.
• The fund had about 20 million shares at Dec 31, 2025, about the same as at Dec 31, 2023.As of Dec 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 Dec 31, 2025: the shares returned +14.1%, counting payouts; the holdings +20.2%. The holdings figure is what the fund's investments earned, before the share price is taken into account. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Dec 31, 2024: the shares returned +21.4%, counting payouts; the holdings +20.9%. As of Dec 31, 2024, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Dec 31, 2023: the shares returned +24.5%, counting payouts; the holdings +20.6%. As of Dec 31, 2023, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Dec 31, 2022: the shares returned -20.2%, counting payouts; the holdings -15.8%. As of Dec 31, 2022, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Dec 31, 2021: the shares returned +28.6%, counting payouts; the holdings +24.4%. As of Dec 31, 2021, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Those five years together: the shares returned +76.8%. $10,000 of shares bought at the start (Jan 1, 2021) would have become about $17,700 by Dec 31, 2025, with every payout counted, before tax. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The holdings over the last twelve months we have, to June 30, 2026: +15.2%. The quarterly reports carry no share price, so this is the holdings alone. As of June 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Of the 46 funds that invest in shares with a fiscal year ending within six months of this one, 34 reported a higher share return for that year and 11 a lower one. As of Dec 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

All shares (100%). About 95% issued in the U.S.

The fund also sells options on its holdings to raise income.

1. Apple - 9.3%
2. Nvidia - 7.3%
3. Alphabet class C shares - 7.2%
4. Microsoft - 6.7%
5. Jp Morgan Chase & Company - 4.1%
6. Broadcom - 3.9%
7. Amazon.Com - 2.7%
8. Caterpillar - 2.2%
9. Eli Lilly & Company - 2.2%
10. Cisco Systems - 2.1%

As of June 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →