Eaton Vance Senior Income Trust (EVF) filings document governance, shareholder voting, and security-registration matters for a closed-end management investment company. Proxy materials describe annual meeting procedures and trustee elections, while Form 8-K reports record board leadership changes and the size of the Board of Trustees.
The filing record also identifies the fund’s common shares of beneficial interest, par value, trading symbol, and NYSE listing. For this fund type, regulatory disclosures center on board oversight, shareholder approvals, capital structure, listing status, and other material events affecting the trust.
Eaton Vance Senior Income Trust asks shareholders to elect three Class I trustees—Cynthia E. Frost, Valerie A. Mosley and Susan J. Sutherland—at its annual meeting on November 2, 2026, at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time. The board recommends voting FOR each nominee. The record date is September 18, 2026, when 18,170,289 common shares were outstanding.
The Fund redeemed all of its outstanding auction preferred shares on September 15, 2026. Those shares were redeemable at a liquidation value of $25,000 per share, plus accumulated and unpaid dividends. The board has nine noninterested trustees. Audit fees for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026 were $79,900, and estimated proxy solicitation costs are approximately $6,200.
Eaton Vance Senior Income Trust (symbol: EVF) is the issuer of record for a Form 4 filing submitted to the SEC. MORGAN STANLEY reported disposition transactions in this Form 4 filing.
Eaton Vance Senior Income Trust (EVF) completed a mandatory redemption of auction preferred stock on September 15, 2026, affecting 94 shares held indirectly by a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley, an affiliate of the trust’s investment adviser. The shares were redeemed at a liquidation preference of $25,000 per share plus accrued but unpaid dividends, with Series A and Series B redeemed at $25,012.175 and $25,008.161111 per share, respectively, leaving the reporting affiliate with no remaining auction preferred shares.
Eaton Vance Senior Income Trust (EVF) is the subject of this amended Schedule 13G/A, in which Morgan Stanley and its subsidiary Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC report that they are no longer significant beneficial owners of the trust’s Auction Preferred Stock. Both entities report 0 shares beneficially owned, with 0.0% of the class, and no sole or shared voting or dispositive power as of September 15, 2026. The filing notes that prior holdings covered multiple series of auction rate preferred securities that were treated as one class under a referenced SEC no-action letter.
Eaton Vance Senior Income Trust (EVF), a leveraged closed-end fund investing primarily in senior, secured floating-rate corporate loans, reported a 2.86% total return at NAV for the 12 months ended June 30, 2026, trailing the Morningstar LSTA US Leveraged Loan Index at 4.36%. Market-price performance was weaker at -4.71%, and the shares traded at an 11.70% discount to NAV at period end.
The fund maintained substantial leverage through auction preferred shares and borrowings, which amplified downside in a year of generally declining loan prices. It paid total distributions of $0.45 per share, implying a 6.60% distribution rate on NAV and 7.47% on market price. Top exposures included software, health care providers, machinery, and commercial services. Management attributes underperformance mainly to leverage and security selection in several industries, while noting benefits from underweights to weaker software and certain auto components names and from buying back auction preferred shares below par. During the year, Catherine C. McDermott retired as portfolio manager, leaving Daniel P. McElaney and Peter M. Campo as managers, the strategy was formally expanded to permit use of credit default swap indices, and the fund announced full redemption of remaining auction preferred shares on September 15, 2026.
1607 Capital Partners, LLC and the Asset Management Committee of Dominion Energy, Inc. jointly report beneficial ownership of 640,377 common shares of beneficial interest of Eaton Vance Senior Income Trust, representing 3.52% of the class as of June 30, 2026.
1607 Capital Partners, as investment adviser, has sole voting and sole dispositive power over these 640,377 shares under its client investment management agreements. Dominion’s Asset Management Committee is deemed a beneficial owner of the same 640,377 shares solely because it can terminate its investment management agreement with 1607 on less than sixty days’ written notice, but it has no authority to vote or dispose of the shares and disclaims beneficial ownership except to the extent of its pecuniary interest.
Royal Bank of Canada, reporting as a ten percent owner of Eaton Vance Senior Income Trust, reported an "other" restructuring transaction involving 118 shares of Auction Preferred Stock on behalf of its indirectly wholly owned subsidiary RBC Capital Markets, LLC. Following this aggregated transaction, reported Auction Preferred Stock holdings for the subsidiary were reduced to zero.
Eaton Vance Senior Income Trust disclosure: an Amendment No. 3 to a Schedule 13G/A filed by Royal Bank of Canada reports 0 shares beneficially owned of the issuer's Auction Rate Preferred Stock (CUSIPs 27826S202 and 27826S301) representing 0% of the class. The filing lists RBC Capital Markets, LLC as a related broker-dealer and is signed by Avinash Sawant on 07/06/2026.
Royal Bank of Canada filed an initial ownership report for Eaton Vance Senior Income Trust, disclosing indirect holdings of 118 shares of Auction Preferred Stock. The shares are held through its subsidiary RBC Capital Markets, LLC and reported on an aggregated basis across two CUSIP series.
Eaton Vance Senior Income Trust ownership update: Royal Bank of Canada reports beneficial ownership of 118 shares of Auction Rate Preferred Stock, representing 42.1% of the class. The holding is split across CUSIPs 27826S202 (56.2%, 63 shares) and 27826S301 (32.7%, 55 shares).
The filing classifies the position as shared voting and shared dispositive power for all 118 shares and identifies RBC Capital Markets, LLC as the subsidiary involved. The report is an amendment signed 07/06/2026.
The filing reports that Bank of America Corp and an affiliated entity have tendered all Auction Rate Preferred shares of Eaton Vance Senior Income Trust (CUSIPs 27826S202 and 27826S301) in a tender offer by the issuer. As a result, the reporting persons' beneficial ownership is 0.00 shares (0.00%).