UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form N-CSR
CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED
MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES
Investment Company Act File Number: 811-04443
Eaton Vance Investment Trust
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
Two International Place, Boston, Massachusetts 02110
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
Maureen A. Gemma
Two International Place, Boston, Massachusetts 02110
(Name and Address of Agent for Services)
(617) 482-8260
(Registrant’s Telephone Number)
March 31
Date of Fiscal Year End
March 31, 2017
Date of Reporting Period
Item 1. Reports to Stockholders
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Eaton Vance
Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
Annual Report
March 31, 2017
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission Registration. Effective December 31, 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) adopted certain regulatory changes that subject registered investment companies and advisers to regulation by the CFTC if a fund invests more than a prescribed level of its assets in certain CFTC-regulated instruments (including futures, certain options and swap agreements) or markets itself as providing investment exposure to such instruments. The Fund has claimed an exclusion from the definition of the term “commodity pool operator” under the Commodity Exchange Act. Accordingly, neither the Fund nor the adviser with respect to the operation of the Fund is subject to CFTC regulation. Because of its management of other strategies, the Fund’s adviser is registered with the CFTC as a commodity pool operator and a commodity trading advisor.
Fund shares are not insured by the FDIC and are not deposits or other obligations of, or guaranteed by, any depository institution. Shares are subject to investment risks, including possible loss of principal invested.
This report must be preceded or accompanied by a current summary prospectus or prospectus. Before investing, investors should consider carefully the investment objective, risks, and charges and expenses of a mutual fund. This and other important information is contained in the summary prospectus and prospectus, which can be obtained from a financial advisor. Prospective investors should read the prospectus carefully before investing. For further information, please call 1-800-262-1122.
Annual Report March 31, 2017
Eaton Vance
Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
Table of Contents
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Management’s Discussion of Fund Performance | | | 2 | |
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Performance | | | 3 | |
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Fund Profile | | | 4 | |
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Endnotes and Additional Disclosures | | | 5 | |
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Fund Expenses | | | 6 | |
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Financial Statements | | | 7 | |
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm | | | 20 | |
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Federal Tax Information | | | 21 | |
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Management and Organization | | | 22 | |
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Important Notices | | | 25 | |
Eaton Vance
Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Management’s Discussion of Fund Performance1
Economic and Market Conditions
As the period opened on April 1, 2016, U.S. Treasurys, along with municipal bonds, were several months into a rally that would continue through nearly the first half of the period. Falling government interest rates around the world, driven by actions such as quantitative easing in Japan and the European Union, put many sovereign rates into negative territory and made U.S. Treasurys and municipal bonds look attractive by comparison.
The United Kingdom’s June 2016 vote to leave the European Union, ongoing Federal Reserve Board (the Fed) caution, and mixed U.S. economic reports continued to fuel the municipal rally in the summer of 2016. Even the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s July 1, 2016 default on over $1 billion in municipal bond and debt service payments — its second default in 2016 and its largest to date — failed to put a dent in the municipal rally, as the market had expected the defaults for some time.
In early fall, however, remarks by the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and the Fed seemed to indicate that rates might begin to rise sooner than markets had anticipated. As a result, municipal rates crept upward in September and October of 2016. In November, Donald Trump’s surprise win in the U.S. presidential election precipitated one of the largest municipal market declines in at least two decades. Rates rose and prices fell as markets anticipated that decreasing regulation and lower tax rates under a Trump administration could lead to higher economic growth and inflation.
Municipal bonds rallied modestly in December 2016, despite a Fed rate hike, making back some of the losses they had suffered the previous month. During January and February 2017, municipal bonds continued to stabilize, with little movement in interest rates. In the final month of the period, rates seesawed as President Trump’s March 1 address to Congress increased confidence in his pro-growth agenda and drove rates up — but the failure of Congress to pass health care reform later in the month cast doubt on the ability to enact that agenda, driving yields back down.
For the 12-month period as a whole, municipal market returns were virtually flat. Coupon yields and price appreciation earlier in the fiscal year were balanced by price declines from September through November 2016, and then a modest price recovery in the final months of the period.
The yield curve for municipal AAA-rated6 issues experienced a “bear flattening.” Rates rose throughout the curve, but the greatest increases occurred in the middle of the curve, causing the curve to flatten. Across the yield curve, municipal bonds, which had outperformed U.S. Treasurys from the beginning of the period until the election, performed approximately even with U.S. Treasurys for the period as a whole.
Fund Performance
For the 12-month period ended March 31, 2017, Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund (the Fund) had a total return of 0.71% for Class A shares at net asset value (NAV), outperforming the 0.67% return of the Fund’s benchmark, the Bloomberg Barclays 1 Year Municipal Bond Index (the Index).2
The Fund invests primarily in municipal obligations that are exempt from regular federal income tax and municipal floating-rate obligations or fixed-rate municipal obligations with respect to which the Fund enters into agreements to swap the fixed-rate for a floating-rate. Management did not employ any fixed-rate to floating-rate swaps during the period.
Contributors to Fund performance versus the Index during the period included security selection in bonds issued by New Jersey entities, an overweight and security selection in A-rated bonds, and an overweight in the industrial development revenue sector.
In contrast, detractors from Fund performance relative to the Index included security selection in electric utility revenue bonds and an overweight in variable-rate demand notes, which are money-market-eligible securities that generally pay less interest than a floating-rate note.
See Endnotes and Additional Disclosures in this report.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value (NAV) or offering price (as applicable) with all distributions reinvested. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance less than or equal to one year is cumulative. Performance is for the stated time period only; due to market volatility, the Fund’s current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. Returns are before taxes unless otherwise noted. For performance as of the most recent month-end, please refer to eatonvance.com.
Eaton Vance
Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Performance2,3
Portfolio Managers Craig R. Brandon, CFA and Adam A. Weigold, CFA
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% Average Annual Total Returns | | Class Inception Date | | | Performance Inception Date | | | One Year | | | Five Years | | | Ten Years | |
Class A at NAV | | | 06/27/1996 | | | | 05/29/1992 | | | | 0.71 | % | | | 0.40 | % | | | 2.01 | % |
Class A with 2.25% Maximum Sales Charge | | | — | | | | — | | | | –1.60 | | | | –0.06 | | | | 1.78 | |
Class I at NAV | | | 08/03/2010 | | | | 05/29/1992 | | | | 0.86 | | | | 0.55 | | | | 2.10 | |
Bloomberg Barclays 1 Year Municipal Bond Index | | | — | | | | — | | | | 0.67 | % | | | 0.70 | % | | | 1.80 | % |
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% Total Annual Operating Expense Ratios4 | | | | | | | | | | | Class A | | | Class I | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0.61 | % | | | 0.46 | % |
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% Distribution Rates/Yields5 | | | | | | | | | | | Class A | | | Class I | |
Distribution Rate | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0.63 | % | | | 0.78 | % |
Taxable-Equivalent Distribution Rate | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1.11 | | | | 1.38 | |
SEC 30-day Yield | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0.43 | | | | 0.62 | |
Taxable-Equivalent SEC 30-day Yield | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0.75 | | | | 1.09 | |
Growth of $10,000
This graph shows the change in value of a hypothetical investment of $10,000 in Class A of the Fund for the period indicated. For comparison, the same investment is shown in the indicated index.
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Growth of Investment3 | | Amount Invested | | | Period Beginning | | | At NAV | | | With Maximum Sales Charge | |
Class I | | $ | 250,000 | | | | 03/31/2007 | | | $ | 307,745 | | | | N.A. | |
See Endnotes and Additional Disclosures in this report.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value (NAV) or offering price (as applicable) with all distributions reinvested. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance less than or equal to one year is cumulative. Performance is for the stated time period only; due to market volatility, the Fund’s current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. Returns are before taxes unless otherwise noted. For performance as of the most recent month-end, please refer to eatonvance.com.
Eaton Vance
Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Fund Profile
Credit Quality (% of total investments)6
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See Endnotes and Additional Disclosures in this report.
Eaton Vance
Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Endnotes and Additional Disclosures
1 | The views expressed in this report are those of the portfolio manager(s) and are current only through the date stated at the top of this page. These views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions, and Eaton Vance and the Fund(s) disclaim any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied upon as investment advice and, because investment decisions are based on many factors, may not be relied upon as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Eaton Vance fund. This commentary may contain statements that are not historical facts, referred to as “forward looking statements”. The Fund’s actual future results may differ significantly from those stated in any forward looking statement, depending on factors such as changes in securities or financial markets or general economic conditions, the volume of sales and purchases of Fund shares, the continuation of investment advisory, administrative and service contracts, and other risks discussed from time to time in the Fund’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
2 | Bloomberg Barclays 1 Year Municipal Bond Index is an unmanaged index of municipal bonds traded in the U.S. with maturities ranging from 1-2 years. Unless otherwise stated, index returns do not reflect the effect of any applicable sales charges, commissions, expenses, taxes or leverage, as applicable. It is not possible to invest directly in an index. |
3 | Total Returns at NAV do not include applicable sales charges. If sales charges were deducted, the returns would be lower. Total Returns shown with maximum sales charge reflect the stated maximum sales charge. Unless otherwise stated, performance does not reflect the deduction of taxes on Fund distributions or redemptions of Fund shares. |
| Performance prior to the inception date of a class may be linked to the performance of an older class of the Fund. This linked performance is adjusted for any applicable sales charge, but is not adjusted for class expense differences. If adjusted for such differences, the performance would be different. The performance of Class I is linked to Class A. Performance since inception for an index, if presented, is the performance since the Fund’s or oldest share class’ inception, as applicable. Performance presented in the Financial Highlights included in the financial statements is not linked. |
| Effective August 19, 2013, the Fund changed its investment objective and policies. Prior to August 19, 2013, the Fund employed a strategy of investing in fixed-rate bonds with a dollar-weighted average portfolio duration of between three and nine years. Performance prior to August 19, 2013 reflects the Fund’s performance under its former investment objective and policies. |
4 | Source: Fund prospectus. The expense ratios for the current reporting period can be found in the Financial Highlights section of this report. |
5 | The Distribution Rate is based on the Fund’s last regular distribution per share in the period (annualized) divided by the Fund’s NAV at the end of the period. The Fund’s distributions may be comprised of amounts characterized for federal income tax purposes as tax-exempt income, qualified and non-qualified ordinary dividends, capital gains and nondividend distributions, also known as return of capital. The Fund will determine the federal income tax character of distributions paid to a shareholder after the end of the calendar year. This is reported on the IRS form 1099- DIV and provided to the shareholder shortly after each year-end. The Fund’s distributions are determined by the investment adviser based on its current assessment of the Fund’s long-term return potential. As portfolio and market conditions change, the rate of distributions paid by the Fund could change. Taxable-equivalent performance is based on the highest combined federal and state income tax rates, where applicable. Lower tax rates would result in lower tax-equivalent performance. Actual tax rates will vary depending on your income, exemptions and deductions. Rates do not include local taxes. SEC Yield is a standardized measure based on the estimated yield to maturity of a fund’s investments over a 30-day period and is based on the maximum offer price at the date specified. The SEC Yield is not based on the distributions made by the Fund, which may differ. |
6 | Ratings are based on Moody’s, S&P or Fitch, as applicable. If securities are rated differently by the ratings agencies, the higher rating is applied. Ratings, which are subject to change, apply to the creditworthiness of the issuers of the underlying securities and not to the Fund or its shares. Credit ratings measure the quality of a bond based on the issuer’s creditworthiness, with ratings ranging from AAA, being the highest, to D, being the lowest based on S&P’s measures. Ratings of BBB or higher by S&P or Fitch (Baa or higher by Moody’s) are considered to be investment- grade quality. Credit ratings are based largely on the ratings agency’s analysis at the time of rating. The rating assigned to any particular security is not necessarily a reflection of the issuer’s current financial condition and does not necessarily reflect its assessment of the volatility of a security’s market value or of the liquidity of an investment in the security. Holdings designated as “Not Rated” are not rated by the national ratings agencies stated above. |
| Fund profile subject to change due to active management. |
Eaton Vance
Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Fund Expenses
Example: As a Fund shareholder, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on purchases and redemption fees (if applicable); and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees; distribution and/or service fees; and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of Fund investing and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds. The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (October 1, 2016 – March 31, 2017).
Actual Expenses: The first section of the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this section, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first section under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes: The second section of the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the actual Fund expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year (before expenses), which is not the actual Fund return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in your Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs, such as sales charges (loads) or redemption fees (if applicable). Therefore, the second section of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would be higher.
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| | Beginning Account Value (10/1/16) | | | Ending Account Value (3/31/17) | | | Expenses Paid During Period* (10/1/16 – 3/31/17) | | | Annualized Expense Ratio | |
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Class A | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 1,003.10 | | | $ | 3.15 | | | | 0.63 | % |
Class I | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 1,003.80 | | | $ | 2.45 | | | | 0.49 | % |
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Class A | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 1,021.80 | | | $ | 3.18 | | | | 0.63 | % |
Class I | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 1,022.50 | | | $ | 2.47 | | | | 0.49 | % |
* | Expenses are equal to the Fund’s annualized expense ratio for the indicated Class, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 182/365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The Example assumes that the $1,000 was invested at the net asset value per share determined at the close of business on September 30, 2016. |
Eaton Vance
Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Portfolio of Investments
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Tax-Exempt Municipal Securities — 98.5% | |
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Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
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Education — 3.4% | |
Bethlehem Area School District Authority, PA, 1.118%, 1/1/18 (Put Date), 1/1/30(1) | | $ | 2,990 | | | $ | 2,993,349 | |
California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, (The Colburn School), 1.91%, 6/1/20 (Put Date), 8/1/37(1) | | | 2,000 | | | | 1,999,980 | |
West Virginia University, 1.44%, 10/1/19 (Put Date), 10/1/41(1) | | | 4,500 | | | | 4,493,970 | |
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| | | $ | 9,487,299 | |
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Electric Utilities — 5.3% | |
Long Island Power Authority, NY, Electric System Revenue, 1.199%, 11/1/18 (Put Date), 5/1/33(1) | | $ | 8,000 | | | $ | 7,998,480 | |
Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority, 1.71%, 8/1/18 (Put Date), 1/1/23(1) | | | 1,330 | | | | 1,328,683 | |
San Antonio, TX, Electric and Gas Systems Revenue, 2.00%, 12/1/18 (Put Date), 12/1/27 | | | 3,500 | | | | 3,535,385 | |
Trimble County, KY, (Louisville Gas and Electric Co.), (AMT), 1.35% to 5/1/18 (Put Date), 11/1/27 | | | 2,000 | | | | 2,000,000 | |
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| | | $ | 14,862,548 | |
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General Obligations — 19.3% | |
California, 1.246%, 12/1/20 (Put Date), 12/1/28(1) | | $ | 3,000 | | | $ | 2,988,540 | |
California, 1.382%, 12/3/18 (Put Date), 12/1/29(1) | | | 4,300 | | | | 4,300,645 | |
California, 1.66%, 5/1/17(1) | | | 1,100 | | | | 1,100,000 | |
Connecticut, 1.54%, 3/1/20(1) | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,002,250 | |
Connecticut, 1.56%, 9/15/17 (Put Date), 9/15/24(1) | | | 2,000 | | | | 2,000,520 | |
Connecticut, 1.66%, 3/1/21(1) | | | 275 | | | | 274,417 | |
Connecticut, 1.93%, 8/15/20(1) | | | 3,000 | | | | 3,001,200 | |
Connecticut, 2.26%, 3/1/18 (Put Date), 3/1/19(1) | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,000,270 | |
Illinois, 5.00%, 8/1/17 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,011,280 | |
Illinois, 5.00%, 1/1/18 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,023,480 | |
Illinois, 5.00%, 11/1/18 | | | 1,500 | | | | 1,562,550 | |
Leander Independent School District, TX, (PSF Guaranteed), 0.00%, 8/15/17 | | | 250 | | | | 249,218 | |
Manheim Township School District, PA, 0.933%, 5/1/18 (Put Date), 5/1/25(1) | | | 1,610 | | | | 1,597,007 | |
Massachusetts, 1.15%, 11/1/18(1) | | | 1,500 | | | | 1,498,575 | |
Massachusetts, 1.21%, 8/1/17 (Put Date), 8/1/43(1) | | | 6,250 | | | | 6,249,937 | |
Massachusetts, 1.51%, 2/1/20(1) | | | 5,000 | | | | 5,009,200 | |
Mississippi, 1.32%, 9/1/17(1) | | | 6,445 | | | | 6,448,158 | |
New York, NY, 1.49%, 8/1/27(1) | | | 2,000 | | | | 2,003,420 | |
New York, NY, (Liq: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.), 0.95%, 3/1/40(2) | | | 6,500 | | | | 6,500,000 | |
Texas, (Texas Transportation Commission), 1.29%, 10/1/18 (Put Date), 10/1/41(1) | | | 3,500 | | | | 3,498,530 | |
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General Obligations (continued) | |
Waxahachie Independent School District, TX, (PSF Guaranteed), 0.00%, 8/15/19 | | $ | 1,500 | | | $ | 1,455,375 | |
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| | | $ | 53,774,572 | |
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Hospital — 16.3% | |
Allen County, OH, (Mercy Health), 1.66%, 5/1/20 (Put Date), 11/1/35(1) | | $ | 1,250 | | | $ | 1,249,437 | |
Astoria Hospital Facilities Authority, OR, (Columbia Memorial Hospital), 4.00%, 8/1/17 | | | 810 | | | | 816,464 | |
California Statewide Communities Development Authority, (Kaiser Permanente), 1.86%, 5/1/17 (Put Date), 4/1/52(1) | | | 4,000 | | | | 4,001,240 | |
Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority, (Hartford HealthCare Corp.), 1.483%, 7/1/20 (Put Date), 7/1/49(1) | | | 1,000 | | | | 996,030 | |
Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority, (Yale New Haven Health), 1.076%, 7/1/19 (Put Date), 7/1/49(1) | | | 7,935 | | | | 7,906,831 | |
Gainesville and Hall County Hospital Authority, GA, (Northeast Georgia Health System, Inc.), 1.86%, 2/18/20 (Put Date), 8/15/35(1) | | | 7,000 | | | | 6,973,330 | |
Geisinger Authority, PA, (Geisinger Health System Foundation), 1.729%, 6/1/24 (Put Date), 6/1/28(1) | | | 2,000 | | | | 1,973,420 | |
Harris County Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp., TX, (Memorial Hermann Health System), 1.49%, 12/1/19 (Put Date), 12/1/42(1) | | | 3,000 | | | | 2,997,120 | |
Maryland Health and Higher Educational Facilities Authority, (Johns Hopkins Health System), 1.356%, 11/15/17 (Put Date), 5/15/38(1) | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,003,230 | |
Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, (Partners HealthCare System), 1.46%, 1/30/18 (Put Date), 7/1/38(1) | | | 1,970 | | | | 1,969,901 | |
Michigan Finance Authority, (McLaren Health Care), 1.268%, 10/15/18 (Put Date), 10/15/30(1) | | | 950 | | | | 945,269 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (North Shore-Long Island Jewish Obligated Group), 1.42%, 5/1/18(1) | | | 5,530 | | | | 5,538,240 | |
North Carolina Medical Care Commission, (Wake Forest Baptist System), 1.65%, 12/1/17 (Put Date), 12/1/33(1) | | | 2,120 | | | | 2,116,714 | |
Oregon Facilities Authority, (Providence Health and Services), 1.79%, 10/1/17 (Put Date), 10/1/20(1) | | | 1,500 | | | | 1,500,000 | |
Washington Health Care Facilities Authority, (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center), 1.758%, 7/1/22 (Put Date), 1/1/42(1) | | | 2,000 | | | | 2,001,620 | |
Washington Health Care Facilities Authority, (PeaceHealth), (Liq: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.), 1.21%, 11/1/24(3)(4) | | | 3,500 | | | | 3,500,000 | |
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| | | $ | 45,488,846 | |
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Industrial Development Revenue — 4.2% | |
Miami-Dade County Industrial Development Authority, FL, (Waste Management, Inc.), 2.125% to 11/1/19 (Put Date), 11/1/41 | | $ | 1,000 | | | $ | 1,013,130 | |
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| | 7 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
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Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Portfolio of Investments — continued
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Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
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Industrial Development Revenue (continued) | |
New Hampshire Business Finance Authority, (Casella Waste Systems, Inc.), (AMT), 4.00% to 10/1/19 (Put Date), 4/1/29(4) | | $ | 165 | | | $ | 163,139 | |
Sussex County Industrial Development Authority, VA, (Atlantic Waste Disposal, Inc.), (AMT), 2.375% to 5/1/19 (Put Date), 6/1/28 | | | 1,500 | | | | 1,524,450 | |
Whiting, IN, (BP Products North America, Inc.), (AMT), 1.66%, 12/2/19 (Put Date), 12/1/44(1) | | | 9,000 | | | | 8,974,080 | |
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| | | $ | 11,674,799 | |
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Insured – Transportation — 0.5% | |
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NY, (AGM), 0.00%, 4/6/21 (Put Date), 11/1/32(1)(5) | | $ | 1,250 | | | $ | 1,250,000 | |
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Lease Revenue / Certificates of Participation — 3.7% | |
Golden Empire Schools Financing Authority, CA, 1.41%, 5/1/17(1) | | $ | 8,500 | | | $ | 8,500,000 | |
New Jersey Economic Development Authority, (School Facilities Construction), 2.46%, 9/1/27(1) | | | 2,000 | | | | 1,872,340 | |
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| | | $ | 10,372,340 | |
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Other Revenue — 7.3% | |
California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, (The J. Paul Getty Trust), 1.179%, 4/1/20 (Put Date), 4/1/38(1) | | $ | 5,500 | | | $ | 5,499,340 | |
California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, (The J. Paul Getty Trust), 1.19%, 4/2/18 (Put Date), 10/1/47(1) | | | 2,500 | | | | 2,499,425 | |
Lancaster Port Authority, OH, Gas Supply Revenue, (SPA: Royal Bank of Canada), 1.146%, 8/1/19(1) | | | 1,700 | | | | 1,682,014 | |
Lancaster Port Authority, OH, Gas Supply Revenue, (SPA: Royal Bank of Canada), 1.246%, 8/1/19 (Put Date), 5/1/38(1) | | | 4,105 | | | | 4,070,846 | |
New Mexico Municipal Energy Acquisition Authority, (SPA: Royal Bank of Canada), 1.276%, 8/1/19 (Put Date), 11/1/39(1) | | | 6,000 | | | | 5,976,600 | |
Texas Municipal Gas Acquisition and Supply Corp., 1.38%, 9/15/17(1) | | | 520 | | | | 519,730 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 20,247,955 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Senior Living / Life Care — 0.2% | |
North Miami, FL, (Imperial Club), 6.125%, 1/1/42 | | $ | 590 | | | $ | 421,756 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 421,756 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | |
Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Special Tax Revenue — 3.8% | |
District of Columbia, Income Tax Secured Revenue, 1.21%, 12/1/17(1) | | $ | 5,000 | | | $ | 5,002,100 | |
Louisiana, Gasoline and Fuels Tax Revenue, 1.019%, 5/1/17 (Put Date), 5/1/43(1) | | | 2,500 | | | | 2,499,475 | |
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NY, Dedicated Tax Revenue, 1.28%, 11/1/18 (Put Date), 11/1/28(1) | | | 3,000 | | | | 2,999,310 | |
New River Community Development District, FL, (Capital Improvements), 5.00%, 5/1/13(6) | | | 35 | | | | 0 | |
New River Community Development District, FL, (Capital Improvements), Series 2010A-2, 5.75%, 5/1/38 | | | 60 | | | | 55,167 | |
Poinciana West Community Development District, FL, 5.875%, 5/1/22 | | | 100 | | | | 100,427 | |
Sterling Hill Community Development District, FL, (Capital Improvements), 5.10%, 5/1/11(6) | | | 20 | | | | 0 | |
Sterling Hill Community Development District, FL, (Capital Improvements), 5.50%, 11/1/10(6) | | | 95 | | | | 66,485 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 10,722,964 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Transportation — 24.5% | |
Bay Area Toll Authority, CA, (San Francisco Bay Area), 1.287%, 4/1/21 (Put Date), 4/1/45(1) | | $ | 8,500 | | | $ | 8,495,920 | |
Bay Area Toll Authority, CA, (San Francisco Bay Area), 1.51%, 4/1/20 (Put Date), 4/1/34(1) | | | 3,500 | | | | 3,502,065 | |
Bay Area Toll Authority, CA, (San Francisco Bay Area), 1.61%, 10/1/19 (Put Date), 4/1/47(1) | | | 1,000 | | | | 999,930 | |
Denver City and County, CO, Airport System Revenue, 1.409%, 11/15/19 (Put Date), 11/15/31(1) | | | 9,000 | | | | 9,011,970 | |
E-470 Public Highway Authority, CO, 1.559%, 9/1/19 (Put Date), 9/1/39(1) | | | 3,500 | | | | 3,498,635 | |
Harris County, TX, Toll Road Revenue, 1.61%, 8/15/18 (Put Date), 8/15/21(1) | | | 1,500 | | | | 1,499,370 | |
Kansas Department of Transportation, 0.926%, 9/1/19(1) | | | 7,500 | | | | 7,476,900 | |
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NY, 1.006%, 11/1/18 (Put Date), 11/1/26(1) | | | 1,500 | | | | 1,490,505 | |
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NY, 1.226%, 2/1/20 (Put Date), 11/1/31(1) | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,001,520 | |
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NY, 1.356%, 11/1/17(1) | | | 1,700 | | | | 1,705,406 | |
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NY, 1.49%, 6/1/20 (Put Date), 11/15/39(1) | | | 3,000 | | | | 2,996,970 | |
New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority, (Transportation Program), 1.91%, 12/15/19 (Put Date), 6/15/34(1) | | | 7,000 | | | | 6,893,460 | |
New Jersey Turnpike Authority, 1.096%, 1/1/18 (Put Date), 1/1/24(1) | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,001,250 | |
New Jersey Turnpike Authority, 1.46%, 1/1/18(1) | | | 5,000 | | | | 4,998,150 | |
North Texas Tollway Authority, 1.58%, 1/1/20 (Put Date), 1/1/38(1) | | | 5,600 | | | | 5,584,040 | |
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| | 8 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Portfolio of Investments — continued
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Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Transportation (continued) | |
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, 1.79%, 12/1/20(1) | | $ | 685 | | | $ | 684,808 | |
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, 2.18%, 12/1/20(1) | | | 2,450 | | | | 2,472,075 | |
Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, NY, 1.226%, 2/1/21 (Put Date), 1/1/32(1) | | | 5,000 | | | | 4,962,300 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 68,275,274 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Water and Sewer — 10.0% | |
Bellingham, WA, Water and Sewer Revenue, (Liq: Citibank, N.A.), 1.11%, 8/1/19(3)(4) | | $ | 3,430 | | | $ | 3,430,000 | |
California Department of Water Resources, (Central Valley Project), 1.21%, 12/1/17 (Put Date), 12/1/35(1) | | | 10,000 | | | | 9,998,100 | |
Louisiana Local Government Environmental Facilities and Community Development Authority, (East Baton Rouge Sewerage Commission), 1.267%, 8/1/18 (Put Date), 2/1/49(1) | | | 3,000 | | | | 2,991,030 | |
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, 1.29%, 3/27/18 (Put Date), 7/1/36(1) | | | 4,000 | | | | 4,001,640 | |
Riverside, CA, Water System Revenue, 1.54%, 1/15/20 (Put Date), 10/1/35(1) | | | 7,500 | | | | 7,500,000 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 27,920,770 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
Total Tax-Exempt Municipal Securities — 98.5% (identified cost $275,039,625) | | | $ | 274,499,123 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Institutional MuniFund Term Preferred Shares — 0.7% | |
| | |
| | | | | | | | |
Security | | Shares | | | Value | |
Nuveen Texas Quality Income Municipal Fund, (AMT), 1.81%, 11/1/18(4)(7) | | | 400 | | | $ | 2,006,540 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
Total Institutional MuniFund Term Preferred Shares — 0.7% (identified cost $2,000,000) | | | $ | 2,006,540 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | |
Total Investments — 99.2% (identified cost $277,039,625) | | | | | | $ | 276,505,663 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
Other Assets, Less Liabilities — 0.8% | | | $ | 2,212,217 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
Net Assets — 100.0% | | | $ | 278,717,880 | |
| | | | | | | | |
The percentage shown for each investment category in the Portfolio of Investments is based on net assets.
At March 31, 2017, the concentration of the Fund’s investments in the various states, determined as a percentage of net assets, is as follows:
| | | | |
California | | | 23.5% | |
New York | | | 13.8% | |
Others, representing less than 10% individually | | | 61.9% | |
The Fund invests primarily in debt securities issued by municipalities. The ability of the issuers of the debt securities to meet their obligations may be affected by economic developments in a specific industry or municipality. In order to reduce the risk associated with such economic developments, at March 31, 2017, 0.5% of total investments are backed by bond insurance of a financial guaranty assurance agency.
(1) | Floating-rate security. The stated interest rate represents the rate in effect at March 31, 2017. |
(2) | Variable rate demand obligation that may be tendered at par on any day for payment the same or next business day. The stated interest rate, which generally resets daily, represents the rate in effect at March 31, 2017. |
(3) | Floating-rate certificate issued by a tender option bond trust that owns the underlying municipal bond. The floating-rate certificate may be tendered at par on any day for payment the lesser of 5 business days or 7 calendar days. The stated interest rate, which generally resets weekly, represents the rate in effect at March 31, 2017. |
(4) | Security exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. These securities may be sold in certain transactions in reliance on an exemption from registration (normally to qualified institutional buyers). At March 31, 2017, the aggregate value of these securities is $9,099,679 or 3.3% of the Fund’s net assets. |
(5) | When-issued security. |
(6) | Defaulted security. Issuer has defaulted on the payment of interest and/or principal. |
(7) | Variable rate security. The stated dividend rate represents the rate in effect at March 31, 2017. Maturity date represents the mandatory redemption date. Each share represents $5,000 par value. |
Abbreviations:
| | | | |
AGM | | – | | Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. |
AMT | | – | | Interest earned from these securities may be considered a tax preference item for purposes of the Federal Alternative Minimum Tax. |
Liq | | – | | Liquidity Provider |
PSF | | – | | Permanent School Fund |
SPA | | – | | Standby Bond Purchase Agreement |
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| | 9 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
| | | | |
Assets | | March 31, 2017 | |
Investments, at value (identified cost, $277,039,625) | | $ | 276,505,663 | |
Cash | | | 1,542,396 | |
Interest receivable | | | 443,756 | |
Receivable for Fund shares sold | | | 1,835,513 | |
Total assets | | $ | 280,327,328 | |
| |
Liabilities | | | | |
Payable for when-issued securities | | $ | 1,250,000 | |
Payable for Fund shares redeemed | | | 162,257 | |
Distributions payable | | | 26,865 | |
Payable to affiliates: | | | | |
Investment adviser fee | | | 78,784 | |
Distribution and service fees | | | 18,602 | |
Accrued expenses | | | 72,940 | |
Total liabilities | | $ | 1,609,448 | |
Net Assets | | $ | 278,717,880 | |
| |
Sources of Net Assets | | | | |
Paid-in capital | | $ | 279,876,178 | |
Accumulated net realized loss | | | (588,971 | ) |
Accumulated distributions in excess of net investment income | | | (35,365 | ) |
Net unrealized depreciation | | | (533,962 | ) |
Net Assets | | $ | 278,717,880 | |
| |
Class A Shares | | | | |
Net Assets | | $ | 139,417,731 | |
Shares Outstanding | | | 14,231,746 | |
Net Asset Value and Redemption Price Per Share | | | | |
(net assets ÷ shares of beneficial interest outstanding) | | $ | 9.80 | |
Maximum Offering Price Per Share | | | | |
(100 ÷ 97.75 of net asset value per share) | | $ | 10.03 | |
| |
Class I Shares | | | | |
Net Assets | | $ | 139,300,149 | |
Shares Outstanding | | | 14,214,126 | |
Net Asset Value, Offering Price and Redemption Price Per Share | | | | |
(net assets ÷ shares of beneficial interest outstanding) | | $ | 9.80 | |
On sales of $100,000 or more, the offering price of Class A shares is reduced.
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| | 10 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Statement of Operations
| | | | |
Investment Income | | Year Ended March 31, 2017 | |
Interest | | $ | 2,376,107 | |
Dividends | | | 29,449 | |
Total investment income | | $ | 2,405,556 | |
| |
Expenses | | | | |
Investment adviser fee | | $ | 639,022 | |
Distribution and service fees | | | | |
Class A | | | 201,611 | |
Trustees’ fees and expenses | | | 12,279 | |
Custodian fee | | | 56,074 | |
Transfer and dividend disbursing agent fees | | | 28,517 | |
Legal and accounting services | | | 48,181 | |
Printing and postage | | | 11,495 | |
Registration fees | | | 80,215 | |
Miscellaneous | | | 27,330 | |
Total expenses | | $ | 1,104,724 | |
| |
Net investment income | | $ | 1,300,832 | |
| |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | | | |
Net realized gain (loss) — | | | | |
Investment transactions | | $ | (587,655 | ) |
Net realized loss | | $ | (587,655 | ) |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) — | | | | |
Investments | | $ | 664,893 | |
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | $ | 664,893 | |
| |
Net realized and unrealized gain | | $ | 77,238 | |
| |
Net increase in net assets from operations | | $ | 1,378,070 | |
| | | | |
| | 11 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| | | | | | | | |
| | Year Ended March 31, | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 2017 | | | 2016 | |
From operations — | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income | | $ | 1,300,832 | | | $ | 950,952 | |
Net realized gain (loss) from investment transactions | | | (587,655 | ) | | | 588 | |
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) from investments | | | 664,893 | | | | (1,756,848 | ) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from operations | | $ | 1,378,070 | | | $ | (805,308 | ) |
Distributions to shareholders — | | | | | | | | |
From net investment income | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | $ | (933,839 | ) | | $ | (721,131 | ) |
Class I | | | (444,809 | ) | | | (235,509 | ) |
From net realized gain | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | | — | | | | (13,405 | ) |
Class I | | | — | | | | (3,367 | ) |
Total distributions to shareholders | | $ | (1,378,648 | ) | | $ | (973,412 | ) |
Transactions in shares of beneficial interest — | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from sale of shares | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | $ | 100,302,879 | | | $ | 19,007,949 | |
Class I | | | 149,772,041 | | | | 29,110,340 | |
Net asset value of shares issued to shareholders in payment of distributions declared | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | | 545,439 | | | | 361,168 | |
Class I | | | 375,733 | | | | 164,614 | |
Cost of shares redeemed | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | | (91,003,418 | ) | | | (29,890,669 | ) |
Class I | | | (40,716,557 | ) | | | (33,327,464 | ) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from Fund share transactions | | $ | 119,276,117 | | | $ | (14,574,062 | ) |
| | |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets | | $ | 119,275,539 | | | $ | (16,352,782 | ) |
| | |
Net Assets | | | | | | | | |
At beginning of year | | $ | 159,442,341 | | | $ | 175,795,123 | |
At end of year | | $ | 278,717,880 | | | $ | 159,442,341 | |
| | |
Accumulated undistributed (distributions in excess of) net investment income included in net assets | | | | | | | | |
At end of year | | $ | (35,365 | ) | | $ | 28,389 | |
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| | 12 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Financial Highlights
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Class A | |
| | Year Ended March 31, | |
| | 2017 | | | 2016 | | | 2015 | | | 2014 | | | 2013 | |
Net asset value — Beginning of year | | $ | 9.800 | | | $ | 9.900 | | | $ | 9.900 | | | $ | 10.420 | | | $ | 10.270 | |
| | | | | |
Income (Loss) From Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income(1) | | $ | 0.064 | | | $ | 0.053 | | | $ | 0.039 | | | $ | 0.166 | | | $ | 0.314 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | | 0.005 | | | | (0.099 | ) | | | 0.022 | | | | (0.511 | ) | | | 0.144 | |
| | | | | |
Total income (loss) from operations | | $ | 0.069 | | | $ | (0.046 | ) | | $ | 0.061 | | | $ | (0.345 | ) | | $ | 0.458 | |
| | | | | |
Less Distributions | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
From net investment income | | $ | (0.069 | ) | | $ | (0.053 | ) | | $ | (0.041 | ) | | $ | (0.175 | ) | | $ | (0.308 | ) |
From net realized gain | | | — | | | | (0.001 | ) | | | (0.020 | ) | | | — | | | | — | |
| | | | | |
Total distributions | | $ | (0.069 | ) | | $ | (0.054 | ) | | $ | (0.061 | ) | | $ | (0.175 | ) | | $ | (0.308 | ) |
| | | | | |
Net asset value — End of year | | $ | 9.800 | | | $ | 9.800 | | | $ | 9.900 | | | $ | 9.900 | | | $ | 10.420 | |
| | | | | |
Total Return(2) | | | 0.71 | % | | | (0.46 | )% | | | 0.62 | % | | | (3.33 | )% | | | 4.49 | % |
| | | | | |
Ratios/Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of year (000’s omitted) | | $ | 139,418 | | | $ | 129,593 | | | $ | 141,537 | | | $ | 55,713 | | | $ | 50,528 | |
Ratios (as a percentage of average daily net assets): | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses(3) | | | 0.63 | % | | | 0.61 | % | | | 0.65 | %(4) | | | 0.72 | %(4) | | | 0.86 | % |
Net investment income | | | 0.65 | % | | | 0.54 | % | | | 0.40 | % | | | 1.66 | % | | | 3.01 | % |
Portfolio Turnover | | | 71 | % | | | 7 | % | | | 103 | % | | | 115 | % | | | 32 | % |
(1) | Computed using average shares outstanding. |
(2) | Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value with all distributions reinvested and do not reflect the effect of sales charges. |
(3) | Excludes the effect of custody fee credits, if any, of less than 0.005%. Effective September 1, 2015, custody fee credits, which were earned on cash deposit balances, were discontinued by the custodian. |
(4) | The investment adviser and administrator reimbursed certain operating expenses (equal to 0.01% and 0.11% of average daily net assets for the years ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively). Absent this reimbursement, total return would be lower. |
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| | 13 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Financial Highlights — continued
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Class I | |
| | Year Ended March 31, | |
| | 2017 | | | 2016 | | | 2015 | | | 2014 | | | 2013 | |
Net asset value — Beginning of year | | $ | 9.800 | | | $ | 9.910 | | | $ | 9.910 | | | $ | 10.430 | | | $ | 10.270 | |
| | | | | |
Income (Loss) From Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income(1) | | $ | 0.075 | | | $ | 0.067 | | | $ | 0.052 | | | $ | 0.183 | | | $ | 0.323 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | | 0.009 | | | | (0.108 | ) | | | 0.024 | | | | (0.512 | ) | | | 0.161 | |
| | | | | |
Total income (loss) from operations | | $ | 0.084 | | | $ | (0.041 | ) | | $ | 0.076 | | | $ | (0.329 | ) | | $ | 0.484 | |
| | | | | |
Less Distributions | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
From net investment income | | $ | (0.084 | ) | | $ | (0.068 | ) | | $ | (0.056 | ) | | $ | (0.191 | ) | | $ | (0.324 | ) |
From net realized gain | | | — | | | | (0.001 | ) | | | (0.020 | ) | | | — | | | | — | |
| | | | | |
Total distributions | | $ | (0.084 | ) | | $ | (0.069 | ) | | $ | (0.076 | ) | | $ | (0.191 | ) | | $ | (0.324 | ) |
| | | | | |
Net asset value — End of year | | $ | 9.800 | | | $ | 9.800 | | | $ | 9.910 | | | $ | 9.910 | | | $ | 10.430 | |
| | | | | |
Total Return(2) | | | 0.86 | % | | | (0.41 | )% | | | 0.77 | % | | | (3.17 | )% | | | 4.74 | % |
| | | | | |
Ratios/Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of year (000’s omitted) | | $ | 139,300 | | | $ | 29,849 | | | $ | 34,258 | | | $ | 5,566 | | | $ | 4,148 | |
Ratios (as a percentage of average daily net assets): | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses(3) | | | 0.48 | % | | | 0.46 | % | | | 0.50 | %(4) | | | 0.57 | %(4) | | | 0.71 | % |
Net investment income | | | 0.77 | % | | | 0.69 | % | | | 0.53 | % | | | 1.82 | % | | | 3.09 | % |
Portfolio Turnover | | | 71 | % | | | 7 | % | | | 103 | % | | | 115 | % | | | 32 | % |
(1) | Computed using average shares outstanding. |
(2) | Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value with all distributions reinvested. |
(3) | Excludes the effect of custody fee credits, if any, of less than 0.005%. Effective September 1, 2015, custody fee credits, which were earned on cash deposit balances, were discontinued by the custodian. |
(4) | The investment adviser and administrator reimbursed certain operating expenses (equal to 0.01% and 0.11% of average daily net assets for the years ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively). Absent this reimbursement, total return would be lower. |
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| | 14 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements
1 Significant Accounting Policies
Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund (the Fund) is a diversified series of Eaton Vance Investment Trust (the Trust). The Trust is a Massachusetts business trust registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company. The Fund’s investment objective is to provide current income exempt from regular federal income tax. The Fund offers two classes of shares. Class A shares are generally sold subject to a sales charge imposed at time of purchase. Class I shares are sold at net asset value and are not subject to a sales charge. Each class represents a pro-rata interest in the Fund, but votes separately on class-specific matters and (as noted below) is subject to different expenses. Realized and unrealized gains and losses are allocated daily to each class of shares based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Net investment income, other than class-specific expenses, is allocated daily to each class of shares based upon the ratio of the value of each class’s paid shares to the total value of all paid shares. Each class of shares differs in its distribution plan and certain other class-specific expenses.
The following is a summary of significant accounting policies of the Fund. The policies are in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (U.S. GAAP). The Fund is an investment company and follows accounting and reporting guidance in the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946.
A Investment Valuation — The following methodologies are used to determine the market value or fair value of investments.
Debt Obligations. Debt obligations are generally valued on the basis of valuations provided by third party pricing services, as derived from such services’ pricing models. Inputs to the models may include, but are not limited to, reported trades, executable bid and asked prices, broker/dealer quotations, prices or yields of securities with similar characteristics, interest rates, anticipated prepayments, benchmark curves or information pertaining to the issuer, as well as industry and economic events. The pricing services may use a matrix approach, which considers information regarding securities with similar characteristics to determine the valuation for a security. Short-term obligations purchased with a remaining maturity of sixty days or less for which a valuation from a third party pricing service is not readily available may be valued at amortized cost, which approximates fair value.
Institutional MuniFund Term Preferred Shares. Institutional MuniFund Term Preferred Shares are valued in the same manner as debt obligations described above.
Fair Valuation. Investments for which valuations or market quotations are not readily available or are deemed unreliable are valued at fair value using methods determined in good faith by or at the direction of the Trustees of the Fund in a manner that fairly reflects the security’s value, or the amount that the Fund might reasonably expect to receive for the security upon its current sale in the ordinary course. Each such determination is based on a consideration of relevant factors, which are likely to vary from one pricing context to another. These factors may include, but are not limited to, the type of security, the existence of any contractual restrictions on the security’s disposition, the price and extent of public trading in similar securities of the issuer or of comparable entities, quotations or relevant information obtained from broker/dealers or other market participants, information obtained from the issuer, analysts, and/or the appropriate stock exchange (for exchange-traded securities), an analysis of the entity’s financial condition, and an evaluation of the forces that influence the issuer and the market(s) in which the security is purchased and sold.
B Investment Transactions and Related Income — Investment transactions for financial statement purposes are accounted for on a trade date basis. Realized gains and losses on investments sold are determined on the basis of identified cost. Interest income is recorded on the basis of interest accrued, adjusted for amortization of premium or accretion of discount. Dividends on Institutional MuniFund Term Preferred Shares are accrued daily based on rates that reset weekly.
C Federal Taxes — The Fund’s policy is to comply with the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies and to distribute to shareholders each year substantially all of its taxable, if any, and tax-exempt net investment income, and all or substantially all of its net realized capital gains. Accordingly, no provision for federal income or excise tax is necessary. The Fund intends to satisfy conditions which will enable it to designate distributions from the interest and dividend income generated by its investments in non-taxable municipal securities, which are exempt from regular federal income tax when received by the Fund, as exempt-interest dividends.
As of March 31, 2017, the Fund had no uncertain tax positions that would require financial statement recognition, de-recognition, or disclosure. The Fund files a U.S. federal income tax return annually after its fiscal year-end, which is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service for a period of three years from the date of filing.
D Expenses — The majority of expenses of the Trust are directly identifiable to an individual fund. Expenses which are not readily identifiable to a specific fund are allocated taking into consideration, among other things, the nature and type of expense and the relative size of the funds.
E Legal Fees — Legal fees and other related expenses incurred as part of negotiations of the terms and requirement of capital infusions, or that are expected to result in the restructuring of, or a plan of reorganization for, an investment are recorded as realized losses. Ongoing expenditures to protect or enhance an investment are treated as operating expenses.
F Use of Estimates — The preparation of the financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and expense during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
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G Indemnifications — Under the Trust’s organizational documents, its officers and Trustees may be indemnified against certain liabilities and expenses arising out of the performance of their duties to the Fund. Under Massachusetts law, if certain conditions prevail, shareholders of a Massachusetts business trust (such as the Trust) could be deemed to have personal liability for the obligations of the Trust. However, the Trust’s Declaration of Trust contains an express disclaimer of liability on the part of Fund shareholders and the By-laws provide that the Trust shall assume the defense on behalf of any Fund shareholders. Moreover, the By-laws also provide for indemnification out of Fund property of any shareholder held personally liable solely by reason of being or having been a shareholder for all loss or expense arising from such liability. Additionally, in the normal course of business, the Fund enters into agreements with service providers that may contain indemnification clauses. The Fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Fund that have not yet occurred.
H When-Issued Securities and Delayed Delivery Transactions — The Fund may purchase or sell securities on a delayed delivery or when-issued basis. Payment and delivery may take place after the customary settlement period for that security. At the time the transaction is negotiated, the price of the security that will be delivered is fixed. The Fund maintains cash and/or security positions for these commitments such that sufficient liquid assets will be available to make payments upon settlement. Securities purchased on a delayed delivery or when-issued basis are marked-to-market daily and begin earning interest on settlement date. Losses may arise due to changes in the market value of the underlying securities or if the counterparty does not perform under the contract.
2 Distributions to Shareholders and Income Tax Information
The net investment income of the Fund is determined daily and substantially all of the net investment income so determined is declared as a dividend to shareholders of record at the time of declaration. Distributions are declared separately for each class of shares. Distributions are paid monthly. Distributions of realized capital gains are made at least annually. Shareholders may reinvest income and capital gain distributions in additional shares of the same class of the Fund at the net asset value as of the reinvestment date or, at the election of the shareholder, receive distributions in cash. Distributions to shareholders are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from U.S. GAAP. As required by U.S. GAAP, only distributions in excess of tax basis earnings and profits are reported in the financial statements as a return of capital. Permanent differences between book and tax accounting relating to distributions are reclassified to paid-in capital. For tax purposes, distributions from short-term capital gains are considered to be from ordinary income.
The tax character of distributions declared for the years ended March 31, 2017 and March 31, 2016 was as follows:
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| | 2017 | | | 2016 | |
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Distributions declared from: | | | | | | | | |
Tax-exempt income | | $ | 1,365,555 | | | $ | 887,864 | |
Ordinary income | | $ | 13,093 | | | $ | 80,256 | |
Long-term capital gains | | $ | — | | | $ | 5,292 | |
During the year ended March 31, 2017, accumulated net realized loss was increased by $5,133, accumulated distributions in excess of net investment income was decreased by $14,062 and paid-in capital was decreased by $8,929 due to differences between book and tax accounting, primarily for premium amortization, accretion of market discount, defaulted bond interest and tax treatment of distributions in excess of net tax-exempt income. These reclassifications had no effect on the net assets or net asset value per share of the Fund.
As of March 31, 2017, the components of distributable earnings (accumulated losses) on a tax basis were as follows:
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Deferred capital losses | | $ | (587,565 | ) |
Net unrealized depreciation | | $ | (543,868 | ) |
Other temporary differences | | $ | (26,865 | ) |
The differences between components of distributable earnings (accumulated losses) on a tax basis and the amounts reflected in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities are primarily due to wash sales, the timing of recognizing distributions to shareholders, premium amortization, accretion of market discount and defaulted bond interest.
At March 31, 2017, the Fund, for federal income tax purposes, had deferred capital losses of $587,565 which would reduce its taxable income arising from future net realized gains on investment transactions, if any, to the extent permitted by the Internal Revenue Code, and thus would reduce the amount of distributions to shareholders, which would otherwise be necessary to relieve the Fund of any liability for federal income or excise tax. The deferred
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Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
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capital losses are treated as arising on the first day of the Fund’s next taxable year and retain the same short-term or long-term character as when originally deferred. Of the deferred capital losses at March 31, 2017, $3,289 are short-term and $584,276 are long-term.
The cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments of the Fund at March 31, 2017, as determined on a federal income tax basis, were as follows:
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Aggregate cost | | $ | 277,049,531 | |
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Gross unrealized appreciation | | $ | 206,465 | |
Gross unrealized depreciation | | | (750,333 | ) |
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Net unrealized depreciation | | $ | (543,868 | ) |
3 Investment Adviser Fee and Other Transactions with Affiliates
The investment adviser fee is earned by Boston Management and Research (BMR), a subsidiary of Eaton Vance Management (EVM), as compensation for management and investment advisory services rendered to the Fund. The fee is based upon a percentage of average daily net assets plus a percentage of gross income (i.e., income other than gains from the sale of securities) and is payable monthly. The annual asset rate and daily income rate are 0.30% and 3.00%, respectively, on average daily net assets of up to $500 million and at reduced rates on daily net assets of $500 million or more. For the year ended March 31, 2017, the investment adviser fee amounted to $639,022 or 0.34% of the Fund’s average daily net assets. BMR had agreed to reimburse the Fund’s expenses to the extent that total annual operating expenses (relating to ordinary operating expenses only) exceeded 0.65% and 0.50% of the Fund’s average daily net assets for Class A and Class I, respectively, through July 31, 2016. Pursuant to this agreement, BMR reimbursed no expenses for the year ended March 31, 2017.
EVM serves as the administrator of the Fund, but receives no compensation. EVM provides sub-transfer agency and related services to the Fund pursuant to a Sub-Transfer Agency Support Services Agreement. For the year ended March 31, 2017, EVM earned $1,150 from the Fund pursuant to such agreement, which is included in transfer and dividend disbursing agent fees on the Statement of Operations. The Fund was informed that Eaton Vance Distributors, Inc. (EVD), an affiliate of EVM and the Fund’s principal underwriter, received $1,618 as its portion of the sales charge on sales of Class A shares for the year ended March 31, 2017. EVD also received distribution and service fees from Class A shares (see Note 4) and contingent deferred sales charges (see Note 5).
Trustees and officers of the Fund who are members of EVM’s or BMR’s organizations receive remuneration for their services to the Fund out of the investment adviser fee. Trustees of the Fund who are not affiliated with the investment adviser may elect to defer receipt of all or a percentage of their annual fees in accordance with the terms of the Trustees Deferred Compensation Plan. For the year ended March 31, 2017, no significant amounts have been deferred. Certain officers and Trustees of the Fund are officers of the above organizations.
4 Distribution Plan
The Fund has in effect a distribution plan for Class A shares (Class A Plan) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. Pursuant to the Class A Plan, the Fund pays EVD a distribution and service fee not exceeding 0.25% per annum of its average daily net assets attributable to Class A shares for distribution services and facilities provided to the Fund by EVD, as well as for personal services and/or the maintenance of shareholder accounts. The Trustees approved distribution and service fee payments equal to 0.15% per annum of its average daily net assets attributable to Class A shares. Distribution and service fees paid or accrued to EVD for the year ended March 31, 2017 amounted to $201,611 for Class A shares.
Distribution and service fees are subject to the limitations contained in the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Rule 2341(d).
5 Contingent Deferred Sales Charges
Prior to September 30, 2015, Class A shares may have been subject to a 0.75% contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) if redeemed within 18 months of purchase (depending on the circumstances of purchase). Effective September 30, 2015, the CDSC on Class A shares was eliminated for new share purchases. Generally, the CDSC is based upon the lower of the net asset value at date of redemption or date of purchase. No charge is levied on shares acquired by reinvestment of dividends or capital gain distributions. For the year ended March 31, 2017, the Fund was informed that EVD received approximately $1,000 of CDSCs paid by Class A shareholders.
6 Purchases and Sales of Investments
Purchases and sales of investments, other than short-term obligations, aggregated $229,743,558 and $129,203,727, respectively, for the year ended March 31, 2017.
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Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
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7 Shares of Beneficial Interest
The Fund’s Declaration of Trust permits the Trustees to issue an unlimited number of full and fractional shares of beneficial interest (without par value). Such shares may be issued in a number of different series (such as the Fund) and classes. Transactions in Fund shares were as follows:
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Class A | | 2017 | | | 2016 | |
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Sales | | | 10,235,588 | | | | 1,934,825 | |
Issued to shareholders electing to receive payments of distributions in Fund shares | | | 55,645 | | | | 36,767 | |
Redemptions | | | (9,284,879 | ) | | | (3,040,918 | ) |
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Net increase (decrease) | | | 1,006,354 | | | | (1,069,326 | ) |
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Class I | | 2017 | | | 2016 | |
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Sales | | | 15,285,029 | | | | 2,956,486 | |
Issued to shareholders electing to receive payments of distributions in Fund shares | | | 38,332 | | | | 16,751 | |
Redemptions | | | (4,153,932 | ) | | | (3,386,940 | ) |
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Net increase (decrease) | | | 11,169,429 | | | | (413,703 | ) |
8 Line of Credit
The Fund participates with other portfolios and funds managed by EVM and its affiliates in a $625 million unsecured line of credit agreement with a group of banks, which is in effect through September 1, 2017. Borrowings are made by the Fund solely to facilitate the handling of unusual and/or unanticipated short-term cash requirements. Interest is charged to the Fund based on its borrowings at an amount above either the Eurodollar rate or Federal Funds rate. In addition, a fee computed at an annual rate of 0.15% on the daily unused portion of the line of credit is allocated among the participating portfolios and funds at the end of each quarter. Because the line of credit is not available exclusively to the Fund, it may be unable to borrow some or all of its requested amounts at any particular time. The Fund did not have any significant borrowings or allocated fees during the year ended March 31, 2017.
9 Fair Value Measurements
Under generally accepted accounting principles for fair value measurements, a three-tier hierarchy to prioritize the assumptions, referred to as inputs, is used in valuation techniques to measure fair value. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized in the three broad levels listed below.
• | | Level 1 – quoted prices in active markets for identical investments |
• | | Level 2 – other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.) |
• | | Level 3 – significant unobservable inputs (including a fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments) |
In cases where the inputs used to measure fair value fall in different levels of the fair value hierarchy, the level disclosed is determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
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Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
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At March 31, 2017, the hierarchy of inputs used in valuing the Fund’s investments, which are carried at value, were as follows:
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Asset Description | | Level 1 | | | Level 2 | | | Level 3 | | | Total | |
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Tax-Exempt Municipal Securities | | $ | — | | | $ | 274,499,123 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 274,499,123 | |
Institutional MuniFund Term Preferred Shares | | | — | | | | 2,006,540 | | | | — | | | | 2,006,540 | |
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Total Investments | | $ | — | | | $ | 276,505,663 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 276,505,663 | |
The Fund held no investments or other financial instruments as of March 31, 2016 whose fair value was determined using Level 3 inputs. At March 31, 2017, there were no investments transferred between Level 1 and Level 2 during the year then ended.
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Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Trustees of Eaton Vance Investment Trust and Shareholders of Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund:
We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund (the “Fund”) (one of the funds constituting Eaton Vance Investment Trust), including the portfolio of investments, as of March 31, 2017, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. The Fund is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Fund’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of March 31, 2017, by correspondence with the custodian and brokers; where replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, such financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund as of March 31, 2017, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
Boston, Massachusetts
May 19, 2017
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Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Federal Tax Information (Unaudited)
The Form 1099-DIV you receive in February 2018 will show the tax status of all distributions paid to your account in calendar year 2017. Shareholders are advised to consult their own tax adviser with respect to the tax consequences of their investment in the Fund. As required by the Internal Revenue Code and/or regulations, shareholders must be notified regarding exempt-interest dividends.
Exempt-Interest Dividends. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017, the Fund designates 99.05% of distributions from net investment income as an exempt-interest dividend.
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Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
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Management and Organization
Fund Management. The Trustees of Eaton Vance Investment Trust (the Trust) are responsible for the overall management and supervision of the Trust’s affairs. The Trustees and officers of the Trust are listed below. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the last five years. Trustees and officers of the Trust hold indefinite terms of office. The “Noninterested Trustees” consist of those Trustees who are not “interested persons” of the Trust, as that term is defined under the 1940 Act. The business address of each Trustee and officer is Two International Place, Boston, Massachusetts 02110. As used below, “EVC” refers to Eaton Vance Corp., “EV” refers to Eaton Vance, Inc., “EVM” refers to Eaton Vance Management, “BMR” refers to Boston Management and Research, “EVMI” refers to Eaton Vance Management (International) Limited and “EVD” refers to Eaton Vance Distributors, Inc. EVC and EV are the corporate parent and trustee, respectively, of EVM and BMR. EVMI is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of EVC. EVD is the Fund’s principal underwriter and a wholly-owned subsidiary of EVC. Each officer affiliated with Eaton Vance may hold a position with other Eaton Vance affiliates that is comparable to his or her position with EVM listed below. Each Trustee oversees 177 portfolios in the Eaton Vance Complex (including all master and feeder funds in a master feeder structure). Each officer serves as an officer of certain other Eaton Vance funds. Each Trustee and officer serves until his or her successor is elected.
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Name and Year of Birth | | Position(s) with the Trust | | Trustee Since(1) | | Principal Occupation(s) and Directorships During Past Five Years and Other Relevant Experience |
Interested Trustee | | | | | | |
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Thomas E. Faust Jr. 1958 | | Trustee | | 2007 | | Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of EVC, Director and President of EV, Chief Executive Officer and President of EVM and BMR, and Director of EVD and EVMI. Trustee and/or officer of 177 registered investment companies. Mr. Faust is an interested person because of his positions with EVM, BMR, EVD, EVMI, EVC and EV, which are affiliates of the Trust. Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) Director of EVC and Hexavest Inc. (investment management firm). |
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Scott E. Eston 1956 | | Trustee | | 2011 | | Private investor. Formerly held various positions at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo and Co., LLC (investment management firm) (1997-2009), including Chief Operating Officer (2002-2009), Chief Financial Officer (1997-2009) and Chairman of the Executive Committee (2002-2008); President and Principal Executive Officer, GMO Trust (open-end registered investment company) (2006-2009). Former Partner, Coopers and Lybrand LLP (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) (a registered public accounting firm) (1987-1997). Mr. Eston has apprised the Board of Trustees that he intends to retire as a Trustee of all Eaton Vance funds effective September 30, 2017. Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) None. |
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Mark R. Fetting(3) 1954 | | Trustee | | 2016 | | Private investor. Formerly held various positions at Legg Mason, Inc. (investment management firm) (2000-2012), including President, Chief Executive Officer, Director and Chairman (2008-2012), Senior Executive Vice President (2004-2008) and Executive Vice President (2001-2004). Formerly, President of Legg Mason family of funds (2001-2008). Formerly, Division President and Senior Officer of Prudential Financial Group, Inc. and related companies (investment management firm) (1991-2000). Directorships in the Last Five Years. Formerly, Director and Chairman of Legg Mason, Inc. (2008-2012); Director/Trustee and Chairman of Legg Mason family of funds (14 funds) (2008-2012); and Director/Trustee of the Royce family of funds (35 funds) (2001-2012). |
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Cynthia E. Frost 1961 | | Trustee | | 2014 | | Private investor. Formerly, Chief Investment Officer of Brown University (university endowment) (2000-2012); Portfolio Strategist for Duke Management Company (university endowment manager) (1995-2000); Managing Director, Cambridge Associates (investment consulting company) (1989-1995); Consultant, Bain and Company (management consulting firm) (1987-1989); Senior Equity Analyst, BA Investment Management Company (1983-1985). Directorships in the Last Five Years. None. |
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George J. Gorman 1952 | | Trustee | | 2014 | | Principal at George J. Gorman LLC (consulting firm). Formerly, Senior Partner at Ernst & Young LLP (a registered public accounting firm) (1974-2009). Directorships in the Last Five Years. Formerly, Trustee of the BofA Funds Series Trust (11 funds) (2011-2014) and of the Ashore Funds (9 funds) (2010-2014). |
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Name and Year of Birth | | Position(s) with the Trust | | Trustee Since(1) | | Principal Occupation(s) and Directorships During Past Five Years and Other Relevant Experience |
Noninterested Trustees (continued) | | | | |
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Valerie A. Mosley 1960 | | Trustee | | 2014 | | Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of Valdo Ventures (a consulting and investment firm). Former Partner and Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Investment Strategist at Wellington Management Company, LLP (investment management firm) (1992-2012). Former Chief Investment Officer, PG Corbin Asset Management (1990-1992). Formerly worked in institutional corporate bond sales at Kidder Peabody (1986-1990). Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) Director of Dyne Capital, Inc. (mortgage REIT) (since 2013). |
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William H. Park 1947 | | Chairperson of the Board and Trustee | | 2016 (Chairperson) 2003 (Trustee) | | Private investor. Formerly, Consultant (management and transactional) (2012-2014). Formerly, Chief Financial Officer, Avon Group L.P. (investment management firm) (2010-2011). Formerly, Vice Chairman, Commercial Industrial Finance Corp. (specialty finance company) (2006-2010). Formerly, President and Chief Executive Officer, Prizm Capital Management, LLC (investment management firm) (2002-2005). Formerly, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, United Asset Management Corporation (investment management firm) (1982-2001). Formerly, Senior Manager, Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) (a registered public accounting firm) (1972-1981). Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) None. |
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Helen Frame Peters 1948 | | Trustee | | 2008 | | Professor of Finance, Carroll School of Management, Boston College. Formerly, Dean, Carroll School of Management, Boston College (2000-2002). Formerly, Chief Investment Officer, Fixed Income, Scudder Kemper Investments (investment management firm) (1998-1999). Formerly, Chief Investment Officer, Equity and Fixed Income, Colonial Management Associates (investment management firm) (1991-1998). Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) Formerly, Director of BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc. (wholesale club retailer) (2004-2011). Formerly, Trustee of SPDR Index Shares Funds and SPDR Series Trust (exchange traded funds) (2000-2009). Formerly, Director of Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston (a bank for banks) (2007-2009). |
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Susan J. Sutherland 1957 | | Trustee | | 2015 | | Private investor. Formerly, Associate, Counsel and Partner at Sadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (law firm) (1982-2013). Directorships in the Last Five Years. Formerly, Director of Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. (global provider of customized insurance and reinsurance products) (2013-2015). |
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Harriett Tee Taggart 1948 | | Trustee | | 2011 | | Managing Director, Taggart Associates (a professional practice firm). Formerly, Partner and Senior Vice President, Wellington Management Company, LLP (investment management firm) (1983-2006). Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) Director of Albemarle Corporation (chemicals manufacturer) (since 2007) and The Hanover Group (specialty property and casualty insurance company) (since 2009). Formerly, Director of Lubrizol Corporation (specialty chemicals) (2007-2011). |
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Ralph F. Verni 1943 | | Trustee | | 2005 | | Consultant and private investor. Formerly, Chief Investment Officer (1982-1992), Chief Financial Officer (1988-1990) and Director (1982-1992), New England Life. Formerly, Chairperson, New England Mutual Funds (1982-1992). Formerly, President and Chief Executive Officer, State Street Management & Research (1992-2000). Formerly, Chairperson, State Street Research Mutual Funds (1992-2000). Formerly, Director, W.P. Carey, LLC (1998-2004) and First Pioneer Farm Credit Corp. (financial services cooperative) (2002-2006). Consistent with the Trustee retirement policy, Mr. Verni is currently expected to retire as a Trustee of all Eaton Vance funds effective July 1, 2017. Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) None. |
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Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
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Name and Year of Birth | | Position(s) with the Trust | | Trustee Since(1) | | Principal Occupation(s) and Directorships During Past Five Years and Other Relevant Experience |
Noninterested Trustees (continued) | | | | |
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Scott E. Wennerholm(3) 1959 | | Trustee | | 2016 | | Consultant at GF Parish Group (executive recruiting firm). Trustee at Wheelock College (postsecondary institution) (since 2012). Formerly, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President at BNY Mellon Asset Management (investment management firm) (2005-2011). Formerly, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Natixis Global Asset Management (investment management firm) (1997-2004). Formerly, Vice President at Fidelity Investments Institutional Services (investment management firm) (1994-1997). Directorships in the Last Five Years. None. |
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Principal Officers who are not Trustees |
Name and Year of Birth | | Position(s) with the Trust | | Officer Since(4) | | Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years |
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Payson F. Swaffield 1956 | | President | | 2003 | | Vice President and Chief Income Investment Officer of EVM and BMR. |
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Maureen A. Gemma 1960 | | Vice President, Secretary and Chief Legal Officer | | 2005 | | Vice President of EVM and BMR. Also Vice President of Calvert Research and Management (“CRM”). |
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James F. Kirchner 1967 | | Treasurer | | 2007 | | Vice President of EVM and BMR. Also Vice President of CRM. |
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Paul M. O’Neil 1953 | | Chief Compliance Officer | | 2004 | | Vice President of EVM and BMR. |
(1) | Year first appointed to serve as Trustee for a fund in the Eaton Vance family of funds. Each Trustee has served continuously since appointment unless indicated otherwise. |
(2) | During their respective tenures, the Trustees (except for Mmes. Frost and Sutherland and Messrs. Fetting, Gorman and Wennerholm) also served as Board members of one or more of the following funds (which operated in the years noted): eUnitsTM 2 Year U.S. Market Participation Trust: Upside to Cap / Buffered Downside (launched in 2012 and terminated in 2014); eUnitsTM 2 Year U.S. Market Participation Trust II: Upside to Cap / Buffered Downside (launched in 2012 and terminated in 2014); and Eaton Vance National Municipal Income Trust (launched in 1998 and terminated in 2009). However, Ms. Mosley did not serve as a Board member of eUnitsTM 2 Year U.S. Market Participation Trust: Upside to Cap / Buffered Downside (launched in 2012 and terminated in 2014). |
(3) | Messrs. Fetting and Wennerholm began serving as Trustees effective September 1, 2016. |
(4) | Year first elected to serve as officer of a fund in the Eaton Vance family of funds when the officer has served continuously. Otherwise, year of most recent election as an officer of a fund in the Eaton Vance family of funds. Titles may have changed since initial election. |
The SAI for the Fund includes additional information about the Trustees and officers of the Fund and can be obtained without charge on Eaton Vance’s website at www.eatonvance.com or by calling 1-800-262-1122.
Eaton Vance Funds
IMPORTANT NOTICES
Privacy. The Eaton Vance organization is committed to ensuring your financial privacy. Each of the financial institutions identified below has in effect the following policy (“Privacy Policy”) with respect to nonpublic personal information about its customers:
• | | Only such information received from you, through application forms or otherwise, and information about your Eaton Vance fund transactions will be collected. This may include information such as name, address, social security number, tax status, account balances and transactions. |
• | | None of such information about you (or former customers) will be disclosed to anyone, except as permitted by law (which includes disclosure to employees necessary to service your account). In the normal course of servicing a customer’s account, Eaton Vance may share information with unaffiliated third parties that perform various required services such as transfer agents, custodians and broker-dealers. |
• | | Policies and procedures (including physical, electronic and procedural safeguards) are in place that are designed to protect the confidentiality of such information. |
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Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
Annual Report
March 31, 2017
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission Registration. Effective December 31, 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) adopted certain regulatory changes that subject registered investment companies and advisers to regulation by the CFTC if a fund invests more than a prescribed level of its assets in certain CFTC-regulated instruments (including futures, certain options and swap agreements) or markets itself as providing investment exposure to such instruments. The Fund has claimed an exclusion from the definition of the term “commodity pool operator” under the Commodity Exchange Act. Accordingly, neither the Fund nor the adviser with respect to the operation of the Fund is subject to CFTC regulation. Because of its management of other strategies, the Fund’s adviser is registered with the CFTC as a commodity pool operator and a commodity trading advisor.
Fund shares are not insured by the FDIC and are not deposits or other obligations of, or guaranteed by, any depository institution. Shares are subject to investment risks, including possible loss of principal invested.
This report must be preceded or accompanied by a current summary prospectus or prospectus. Before investing, investors should consider carefully the investment objective, risks, and charges and expenses of a mutual fund. This and other important information is contained in the summary prospectus and prospectus, which can be obtained from a financial advisor. Prospective investors should read the prospectus carefully before investing. For further information, please call 1-800-262-1122.
Annual Report March 31, 2017
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
Table of Contents
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Management’s Discussion of Fund Performance | | | 2 | |
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Performance | | | 3 | |
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Fund Profile | | | 4 | |
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Endnotes and Additional Disclosures | | | 5 | |
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Fund Expenses | | | 6 | |
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Financial Statements | | | 7 | |
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm | | | 27 | |
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Federal Tax Information | | | 28 | |
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Management and Organization | | | 29 | |
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Important Notices | | | 32 | |
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Management’s Discussion of Fund Performance1
Economic and Market Conditions
As the period opened on April 1, 2016, U.S. Treasurys, along with municipal bonds, were several months into a rally that would continue through nearly the first half of the period. Falling government interest rates around the world, driven by actions such as quantitative easing in Japan and the European Union, put many sovereign rates into negative territory and made U.S. Treasurys and municipal bonds look attractive by comparison.
The United Kingdom’s June 2016 vote to leave the European Union, ongoing Federal Reserve Board (the Fed) caution, and mixed U.S. economic reports continued to fuel the municipal rally in the summer of 2016. Even the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s July 1, 2016 default on over $1 billion in municipal bond and debt service payments — its second default in 2016 and its largest to date — failed to put a dent in the municipal rally, as the market had expected the defaults for some time.
In early fall, however, remarks by the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and the Fed seemed to indicate that rates might begin to rise sooner than markets had anticipated. As a result, municipal rates crept upward in September and October of 2016. In November, Donald Trump’s surprise win in the U.S. presidential election precipitated one of the largest municipal market declines in at least two decades. Rates rose and prices fell as markets anticipated that decreasing regulation and lower tax rates under a Trump administration could lead to higher economic growth and inflation.
Municipal bonds rallied modestly in December 2016, despite a Fed rate hike, making back some of the losses they had suffered the previous month. During January and February 2017, municipal bonds continued to stabilize, with little movement in interest rates. In the final month of the period, rates seesawed as President Trump’s March 1 address to Congress increased confidence in his pro-growth agenda and drove rates up — but the failure of Congress to pass health care reform later in the month cast doubt on the ability to enact that agenda, driving yields back down.
For the 12-month period as a whole, municipal market returns were virtually flat. Coupon yields and price appreciation earlier in the fiscal year were balanced by price declines from September through November 2016, and then a modest price recovery in the final months of the period. The yield curve for
municipal AAA-rated6 issues experienced a “bear flattening.” Rates rose throughout the curve, but the greatest increases occurred in the middle of the curve, causing the curve to flatten. Across the yield curve, municipal bonds, which had outperformed U.S. Treasurys from the beginning of the period until the election, performed approximately even with U.S. Treasurys for the period as a whole.
Fund Performance
For the 12-month period ended March 31, 2017, Eaton Vance National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund (the Fund) had a total return of -0.29% for Class A shares at net asset value (NAV), underperforming the -0.06% return of the Fund’s benchmark, the Bloomberg Barclays 7 Year Municipal Bond Index (the Index).2
The Fund’s overall strategy is to invest in municipal obligations that are exempt from regular federal income tax. The Fund seeks to maintain a dollar-weighted average portfolio duration7 between three and nine years.
While the Index includes only bonds with maturities of six to eight years, the Fund may invest in individual municipal obligations of any maturity and own some longer-maturity bonds in order to capture their potentially higher yields and greater tax-exempt income.
Detractors from Fund performance versus the Index during the period included security selection in state general obligation bonds; security selection in electric utility revenue bonds; an overweight, relative to the Index, in bonds with 10–20 years remaining to maturity; and security selection and an overweight in 3.00% to 4.00% coupon bonds. In the municipal market, 5.00% coupon bonds are the most commonly held structure. Since lower coupon structures are less common, they trade at various spreads to 5.00% coupon bonds. During the period, spreads on the specific securities selected widened, causing the lower coupon structures to underperform the Index during the period.
In contrast, contributors to Fund performance versus the Index included an overweight and security selection in the industrial development revenue sector; an overweight and security selection in pre-refunded, or escrowed, bonds; an overweight and security selection in zero-coupon bonds; and an overweight and security selection in non-rated bonds.
See Endnotes and Additional Disclosures in this report.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value (NAV) or offering price (as applicable) with all distributions reinvested. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance less than or equal to one year is cumulative. Performance is for the stated time period only; due to market volatility, the Fund’s current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. Returns are before taxes unless otherwise noted. For performance as of the most recent month-end, please refer to eatonvance.com.
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Performance2,3
Portfolio Manager Adam A. Weigold, CFA
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% Average Annual Total Returns | | Class Inception Date | | | Performance Inception Date | | | One Year | | | Five Years | | | Ten Years | |
Class A at NAV | | | 06/27/1996 | | | | 05/22/1992 | | | | –0.29 | % | | | 2.40 | % | | | 2.97 | % |
Class A with 2.25% Maximum Sales Charge | | | — | | | | — | | | | –2.50 | | | | 1.92 | | | | 2.73 | |
Class B at NAV | | | 05/22/1992 | | | | 05/22/1992 | | | | –1.03 | | | | 1.63 | | | | 2.20 | |
Class B with 3% Maximum Sales Charge | | | — | | | | — | | | | –3.94 | | | | 1.63 | | | | 2.20 | |
Class C at NAV | | | 12/08/1993 | | | | 05/22/1992 | | | | –1.03 | | | | 1.62 | | | | 2.20 | |
Class C with 1% Maximum Sales Charge | | | — | | | | — | | | | –2.00 | | | | 1.62 | | | | 2.20 | |
Class I at NAV | | | 10/01/2009 | | | | 05/22/1992 | | | | –0.24 | | | | 2.55 | | | | 3.07 | |
Bloomberg Barclays 7 Year Municipal Bond Index | | | — | | | | — | | | | –0.06 | % | | | 2.72 | % | | | 4.47 | % |
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% Total Annual Operating Expense Ratios4 | | | | | Class A | | | Class B | | | Class C | | | Class I | |
| | | | | | | 0.66 | % | | | 1.41 | % | | | 1.41 | % | | | 0.51 | % |
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% Distribution Rates/Yields5 | | | | | Class A | | | Class B | | | Class C | | | Class I | |
Distribution Rate | | | | | | | 2.80 | % | | | 2.00 | % | | | 2.04 | % | | | 2.95 | % |
Taxable-Equivalent Distribution Rate | | | | | | | 4.95 | | | | 3.53 | | | | 3.60 | | | | 5.21 | |
SEC 30-day Yield | | | | | | | 1.55 | | | | 0.81 | | | | 0.85 | | | | 1.74 | |
Taxable-Equivalent SEC 30-day Yield | | | | | | | 2.74 | | | | 1.43 | | | | 1.50 | | | | 3.07 | |
Growth of $10,000
This graph shows the change in value of a hypothetical investment of $10,000 in Class A of the Fund for the period indicated. For comparison, the same investment is shown in the indicated index.
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Growth of Investment3 | | Amount Invested | | | Period Beginning | | | At NAV | | | With Maximum Sales Charge | |
Class B | | $ | 10,000 | | | | 03/31/2007 | | | $ | 12,432 | | | | N.A. | |
Class C | | $ | 10,000 | | | | 03/31/2007 | | | $ | 12,432 | | | | N.A. | |
Class I | | $ | 250,000 | | | | 03/31/2007 | | | $ | 338,271 | | | | N.A. | |
See Endnotes and Additional Disclosures in this report.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value (NAV) or offering price (as applicable) with all distributions reinvested. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance less than or equal to one year is cumulative. Performance is for the stated time period only; due to market volatility, the Fund’s current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. Returns are before taxes unless otherwise noted. For performance as of the most recent month-end, please refer to eatonvance.com.
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Fund Profile
Credit Quality (% of total investments)6
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See Endnotes and Additional Disclosures in this report.
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Endnotes and Additional Disclosures
1 | The views expressed in this report are those of the portfolio manager(s) and are current only through the date stated at the top of this page. These views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions, and Eaton Vance and the Fund(s) disclaim any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied upon as investment advice and, because investment decisions are based on many factors, may not be relied upon as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Eaton Vance fund. This commentary may contain statements that are not historical facts, referred to as “forward looking statements”. The Fund’s actual future results may differ significantly from those stated in any forward looking statement, depending on factors such as changes in securities or financial markets or general economic conditions, the volume of sales and purchases of Fund shares, the continuation of investment advisory, administrative and service contracts, and other risks discussed from time to time in the Fund’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
2 | Bloomberg Barclays 7 Year Municipal Bond Index is an unmanaged index of municipal bonds traded in the U.S. with maturities ranging from 6-8 years. Unless otherwise stated, index returns do not reflect the effect of any applicable sales charges, commissions, expenses, taxes or leverage, as applicable. It is not possible to invest directly in an index. |
3 | Total Returns at NAV do not include applicable sales charges. If sales charges were deducted, the returns would be lower. Total Returns shown with maximum sales charge reflect the stated maximum sales charge. Unless otherwise stated, performance does not reflect the deduction of taxes on Fund distributions or redemptions of Fund shares. |
| Performance prior to the inception date of a class may be linked to the performance of an older class of the Fund. This linked performance is adjusted for any applicable sales charge, but is not adjusted for class expense differences. If adjusted for such differences, the performance would be different. The performance of Class I is linked to Class A. Performance since inception for an index, if presented, is the performance since the Fund’s or oldest share class’ inception, as applicable. Performance presented in the Financial Highlights included in the financial statements is not linked. |
4 | Source: Fund prospectus. The expense ratios for the current reporting period can be found in the Financial Highlights section of this report. |
5 | The Distribution Rate is based on the Fund’s last regular distribution per share in the period (annualized) divided by the Fund’s NAV at the end of the period. The Fund’s distributions may be comprised of amounts characterized for federal income tax purposes as tax-exempt income, qualified and non-qualified ordinary dividends, capital gains and nondividend distributions, also known as return of capital. The Fund will determine the federal income tax character of distributions paid to a shareholder after the end of the calendar year. This is reported on the IRS form 1099-DIV and provided to the shareholder shortly after each year-end. The Fund’s distributions are determined by the investment adviser based on its current assessment of the Fund’s long-term return potential. As portfolio and market conditions change, the rate of distributions paid by the Fund could change. Taxable-equivalent performance is based on the highest combined federal and state income tax rates, where applicable. Lower tax rates would result in lower tax-equivalent performance. Actual tax rates will vary depending on your income, exemptions and deductions. Rates do not include local taxes. SEC Yield is a standardized measure based on the estimated yield to maturity of a fund’s investments over a 30-day period and is based on the maximum offer price at the date specified. The SEC Yield is not based on the distributions made by the Fund, which may differ. |
6 | Ratings are based on Moody’s, S&P or Fitch, as applicable. If securities are rated differently by the ratings agencies, the higher rating is applied. Ratings, which are subject to change, apply to the creditworthiness of the issuers of the underlying securities and not to the Fund or its shares. Credit ratings measure the quality of a bond based on the issuer’s creditworthiness, with ratings ranging from AAA, being the highest, to D, being the lowest based on S&P’s measures. Ratings of BBB or higher by S&P or Fitch (Baa or higher by Moody’s) are considered to be investment- grade quality. Credit ratings are based largely on the ratings agency’s analysis at the time of rating. The rating assigned to any particular security is not necessarily a reflection of the issuer’s current financial condition and does not necessarily reflect its assessment of the volatility of a security’s market value or of the liquidity of an investment in the security. Holdings designated as “Not Rated” are not rated by the national ratings agencies stated above. |
7 | Duration is a measure of the expected change in price of a bond — in percentage terms — given a one percent change in interest rates, all else being constant. Securities with lower durations tend to be less sensitive to interest rate changes. |
| Fund profile subject to change due to active management. |
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Fund Expenses
Example: As a Fund shareholder, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on purchases and redemption fees (if applicable); and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees; distribution and/or service fees; and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of Fund investing and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds. The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (October 1, 2016 – March 31, 2017).
Actual Expenses: The first section of the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this section, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first section under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes: The second section of the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the actual Fund expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year (before expenses), which is not the actual Fund return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in your Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs, such as sales charges (loads) or redemption fees (if applicable). Therefore, the second section of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would be higher.
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Class A | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 983.40 | | | $ | 3.41 | | | | 0.69 | % |
Class B | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 980.70 | | | $ | 7.11 | | | | 1.44 | % |
Class C | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 979.80 | | | $ | 7.11 | | | | 1.44 | % |
Class I | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 984.10 | | | $ | 2.67 | | | | 0.54 | % |
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Class A | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 1,021.50 | | | $ | 3.48 | | | | 0.69 | % |
Class B | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 1,017.80 | | | $ | 7.24 | | | | 1.44 | % |
Class C | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 1,017.80 | | | $ | 7.24 | | | | 1.44 | % |
Class I | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 1,022.20 | | | $ | 2.72 | | | | 0.54 | % |
* | Expenses are equal to the Fund’s annualized expense ratio for the indicated Class, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 182/365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The Example assumes that the $1,000 was invested at the net asset value per share determined at the close of business on September 30, 2016. |
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Portfolio of Investments
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Tax-Exempt Municipal Securities — 97.8% | |
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Bond Bank — 1.6% | |
Idaho Bond Bank Authority, Prerefunded to 9/15/18, 5.00%, 9/15/21 | | $ | 210 | | | $ | 222,237 | |
Massachusetts Water Pollution Abatement Trust, 5.00%, 8/1/25 | | | 3,000 | | | | 3,672,570 | |
New York Environmental Facilities Corp., (Water Revenue-Sub-Revolving), 5.00%, 6/15/22 | | | 3,130 | | | | 3,659,784 | |
Ohio Water Development Authority, Water Pollution Control Loan Fund, (Water Quality), 5.25%, 6/1/20 | | | 280 | | | | 315,252 | |
Rhode Island Clean Water Finance Agency, Water Pollution Control, 4.00%, 10/1/20 | | | 1,850 | | | | 2,014,372 | |
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Education — 4.1% | |
Allegheny County Higher Education Building Authority, PA, (Duquesne University), 5.00%, 3/1/25 | | $ | 100 | | | $ | 113,397 | |
California Educational Facilities Authority, (Claremont McKenna College), 5.00%, 1/1/27 | | | 145 | | | | 149,233 | |
California Educational Facilities Authority, (Loyola Marymount University), 5.00%, 10/1/25 | | | 500 | | | | 539,770 | |
Dutchess County Local Development Corp., NY, (Culinary Institute of America), 5.00%, 7/1/21 | | | 250 | | | | 279,755 | |
Dutchess County Local Development Corp., NY, (Culinary Institute of America), 5.00%, 7/1/22 | | | 300 | | | | 340,236 | |
Dutchess County Local Development Corp., NY, (Culinary Institute of America), 5.00%, 7/1/23 | | | 300 | | | | 343,611 | |
Dutchess County Local Development Corp., NY, (Culinary Institute of America), 5.00%, 7/1/24 | | | 665 | | | | 767,915 | |
Forest Grove, OR, (Pacific University), Series 2015A, 5.00%, 5/1/22 | | | 200 | | | | 225,528 | |
Forest Grove, OR, (Pacific University), Series 2015A, 5.00%, 5/1/23 | | | 400 | | | | 455,788 | |
Houston Higher Education Finance Corp., TX, (St. John’s School), 5.00%, 9/1/25 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,123,910 | |
New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority, (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey), Prerefunded to 6/1/19, 7.125%, 12/1/23 | | | 2,750 | | | | 3,101,917 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), 5.00%, 7/1/23 | | | 4,000 | | | | 4,648,080 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (Third Generation Resolution), 5.00%, 5/15/26 | | | 3,400 | | | | 3,918,976 | |
Ohio State University, General Receipts, 5.00%, 12/1/23 | | | 225 | | | | 240,352 | |
Romeoville, IL, (Lewis University), 5.00%, 10/1/21 | | | 500 | | | | 552,770 | |
Romeoville, IL, (Lewis University), 5.00%, 10/1/22 | | | 500 | | | | 558,750 | |
Union County Higher Educational Facilities Financing Authority, PA, (Bucknell University), 5.00%, 4/1/28 | | | 530 | | | | 594,172 | |
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University of California, Prerefunded to 5/15/17, 5.00%, 5/15/21 | | $ | 480 | | | $ | 487,339 | |
University of California, Series Q, 5.00%, 5/15/21 | | | 20 | | | | 20,302 | |
University of Massachusetts Building Authority, 5.00%, 11/1/22 | | | 1,750 | | | | 2,052,417 | |
Vermont Educational and Health Buildings Financing Agency, (St. Michael’s College), 5.00%, 10/1/23 | | | 1,235 | | | | 1,385,485 | |
Vermont Educational and Health Buildings Financing Agency, (St. Michael’s College), 5.00%, 10/1/24 | | | 675 | | | | 757,337 | |
Vermont Educational and Health Buildings Financing Agency, (St. Michael’s College), 5.00%, 10/1/26 | | | 575 | | | | 638,837 | |
Washington County Industrial Development Authority, PA, (Washington & Jefferson College), 5.00%, 11/1/23 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,088,740 | |
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Electric Utilities — 6.6% | |
American Municipal Power-Ohio, Inc., (Meldahl Hydroelectric Project), 5.00%, 2/15/21 | | $ | 4,235 | | | $ | 4,772,210 | |
Apache County Industrial Development Authority, AZ, (Tucson Electric Power Co.), 4.50%, 3/1/30 | | | 2,390 | | | | 2,515,786 | |
Chesterfield County Economic Development Authority, VA, (Virginia Electric and Power Co.), 5.00%, 5/1/23 | | | 2,000 | | | | 2,155,600 | |
Escambia County, FL, (Gulf Power Co.), 2.10% to 4/11/19 (Put Date), 7/1/22 | | | 2,250 | | | | 2,280,577 | |
Hawaii Department of Budget and Finance, (Hawaiian Electric Co.), (AMT), 3.25%, 1/1/25 | | | 3,000 | | | | 3,047,280 | |
Mason County, WV, (Appalachian Power Co.), 1.625% to 10/1/18 (Put Date), 10/1/22 | | | 2,950 | | | | 2,951,091 | |
Montgomery County Industrial Development Authority, PA, (Exelon Generation Co., LLC), 2.55% to 6/1/20 (Put Date), 6/1/29 | | | 1,750 | | | | 1,747,217 | |
Montgomery County Industrial Development Authority, PA, (Exelon Generation Co., LLC), (AMT), 2.70% to 4/1/20 (Put Date), 10/1/34 | | | 1,500 | | | | 1,494,690 | |
Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia, 5.25%, 1/1/21 | | | 2,000 | | | | 2,226,740 | |
Nebraska Public Power District, 5.00%, 1/1/29 | | | 2,000 | | | | 2,349,460 | |
Pima County Industrial Development Authority, AZ, (Tucson Electric Power Co.), 4.00%, 9/1/29 | | | 2,685 | | | | 2,795,488 | |
Pima County Industrial Development Authority, AZ, (Tucson Electric Power Co.), 4.95%, 10/1/20 | | | 5,045 | | | | 5,499,050 | |
Vernon, Electric System Revenue, CA, 5.125%, 8/1/21 | | | 5,070 | | | | 5,458,565 | |
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| | | $ | 39,293,754 | |
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Escrowed / Prerefunded — 3.5% | |
Bucks County, PA, Prerefunded to 11/1/18, 5.125%, 5/1/21 | | $ | 500 | | | $ | 532,585 | |
California Educational Facilities Authority, (Claremont McKenna College), Prerefunded to 1/1/18, 5.00%, 1/1/27 | | | 355 | | | | 366,122 | |
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| | 7 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
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Escrowed / Prerefunded (continued) | |
Chester County, PA, Prerefunded to 7/15/19, 5.00%, 7/15/28 | | $ | 1,205 | | | $ | 1,310,715 | |
Dauphin County General Authority, PA, (Pinnacle Health System), Prerefunded to 6/1/19, 5.75%, 6/1/20 | | | 3,860 | | | | 4,241,561 | |
Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, (Dominion Energy Brayton), Prerefunded to 5/1/19, 5.75%, 12/1/42 | | | 3,200 | | | | 3,504,000 | |
Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, Escrowed to Maturity, 5.00%, 1/1/20 | | | 1,415 | | | | 1,503,876 | |
Michigan, Prerefunded to 5/1/19, 6.00%, 11/1/22 | | | 2,985 | | | | 3,284,545 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (NYU Hospital Center), Prerefunded to 7/1/17, 5.25%, 7/1/24 | | | 1,255 | | | | 1,269,382 | |
North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency, Escrowed to Maturity, 4.00%, 1/1/18 | | | 550 | | | | 561,874 | |
Ohio State University, General Receipts, Prerefunded to 12/1/18, 5.00%, 12/1/23 | | | 25 | | | | 26,658 | |
Onondaga Civic Development Corp., NY, (St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center), Prerefunded to 7/1/19, 4.625%, 7/1/22 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,077,530 | |
University of Pittsburgh, PA, Prerefunded to 3/15/19, 5.50%, 9/15/23 | | | 750 | | | | 814,305 | |
Vernon, Electric System Revenue, CA, Prerefunded to 8/1/19, 5.125%, 8/1/21 | | | 2,185 | | | | 2,327,353 | |
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| | | $ | 20,820,506 | |
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General Obligations — 11.4% | |
Beaverton School District 48J, Washington and Multnomah Counties, OR, 5.00%, 6/15/22 | | $ | 4,000 | | | $ | 4,679,000 | |
Bergen County Improvement Authority, NJ, (County Administration Complex), 5.00%, 11/15/24 | | | 1,100 | | | | 1,328,327 | |
Bingham and Bonneville Counties Joint School District No. 93, ID, 5.00%, 9/15/25 | | | 630 | | | | 736,445 | |
Chester County, PA, 5.00%, 7/15/28 | | | 325 | | | | 352,433 | |
Daniel Boone Area School District, PA, 5.00%, 8/15/19 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,049,200 | |
Franklin Township School District, NJ, 5.00%, 8/15/22 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,159,630 | |
Gwinnett County School District, GA, 5.00%, 2/1/26 | | | 2,220 | | | | 2,681,516 | |
Illinois, 5.00%, 2/1/23 | | | 5,000 | | | | 5,291,750 | |
Illinois, 5.00%, 2/1/25 | | | 4,000 | | | | 4,220,120 | |
Kentwood Public Schools, MI, 4.00%, 5/1/21 | | | 465 | | | | 507,980 | |
Kentwood Public Schools, MI, 4.00%, 5/1/23 | | | 950 | | | | 1,053,541 | |
Laredo Independent School District, TX, (PSF Guaranteed), 0.00%, 8/1/21 | | | 1,750 | | | | 1,629,582 | |
Leander Independent School District, TX, (PSF Guaranteed), 0.00%, 8/15/19 | | | 1,385 | | | | 1,343,796 | |
Massachusetts, 5.00%, 8/1/23 | | | 7,500 | | | | 8,922,525 | |
Millcreek Township School District, PA, 5.00%, 9/15/21 | | | 3,730 | | | | 4,201,062 | |
Millcreek Township School District, PA, 5.00%, 9/15/25 | | | 500 | | | | 576,965 | |
Mount Lebanon School District, PA, 5.00%, 2/15/28 | | | 1,280 | | | | 1,362,266 | |
New York, NY, 5.00%, 8/1/24 | | | 2,000 | | | | 2,378,560 | |
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Omaha Public Facilities Corp., NE, (Omaha Baseball Stadium), 5.00%, 6/1/22 | | $ | 1,925 | | | $ | 2,235,425 | |
Omaha Public Facilities Corp., NE, (Omaha Baseball Stadium), 5.00%, 6/1/23 | | | 2,095 | | | | 2,469,335 | |
Oregon, 5.00%, 5/1/28 | | | 500 | | | | 604,165 | |
Oregon, 5.00%, 5/1/29 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,199,930 | |
Oregon, 5.00%, 8/1/29 | | | 1,500 | | | | 1,804,755 | |
Oregon, 5.00%, 11/1/30 | | | 1,370 | | | | 1,631,204 | |
Palo Alto, CA, (Election of 2008), 5.00%, 8/1/28 | | | 1,250 | | | | 1,389,825 | |
Pittsburgh, PA, 5.00%, 9/1/26 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,140,760 | |
Salem-Keizer School District No. 24J, OR, 0.00%, 6/15/23 | | | 13,860 | | | | 12,136,509 | |
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| | | $ | 68,086,606 | |
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Hospital — 10.8% | |
Allegheny County Hospital Development Authority, PA, (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center), 5.00%, 6/15/18 | | $ | 500 | | | $ | 524,000 | |
Allegheny County Hospital Development Authority, PA, (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center), 5.00%, 9/1/18 | | | 500 | | | | 527,500 | |
Boone County, MO, (Boone Hospital Center), 5.00%, 8/1/28 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,117,240 | |
California Municipal Finance Authority, (NorthBay Healthcare Group), Series 2015, 5.00%, 11/1/17 | | | 540 | | | | 550,249 | |
California Municipal Finance Authority, (NorthBay Healthcare Group), Series 2015, 5.00%, 11/1/21 | | | 300 | | | | 331,248 | |
California Municipal Finance Authority, (NorthBay Healthcare Group), Series 2015, 5.00%, 11/1/22 | | | 185 | | | | 205,744 | |
California Statewide Communities Development Authority, (John Muir Health), 5.00%, 7/1/18 | | | 500 | | | | 524,710 | |
California Statewide Communities Development Authority, (Kaiser Permanente), 5.00%, 4/1/19 | | | 500 | | | | 538,680 | |
Dauphin County General Authority, PA, (Pinnacle Health System), 5.75%, 6/1/20 | | | 2,640 | | | | 2,883,091 | |
Delaware Health Facilities Authority, (Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, Inc.), 5.00%, 7/1/23 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,098,240 | |
Florence County, SC, (McLeod Regional Medical Center), 5.00%, 11/1/22 | | | 665 | | | | 773,887 | |
Halifax Hospital Medical Center, FL, 5.00%, 6/1/22 | | | 515 | | | | 586,065 | |
Halifax Hospital Medical Center, FL, 5.00%, 6/1/24 | | | 325 | | | | 375,232 | |
Halifax Hospital Medical Center, FL, 5.00%, 6/1/25 | | | 1,380 | | | | 1,595,694 | |
Hamilton County, OH, (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center), 5.00%, 5/15/24 | | | 1,250 | | | | 1,473,725 | |
Hawaii Department of Budget and Finance, (Hawaii Pacific Health Group), 5.00%, 7/1/24 | | | 460 | | | | 535,109 | |
Illinois Finance Authority, (Presence Health Network), 5.00%, 2/15/23 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,090,190 | |
Illinois Finance Authority, (Presence Health Network), 5.00%, 2/15/24 | | | 500 | | | | 545,125 | |
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| | 8 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
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Illinois Finance Authority, (Rush University Medical Center), 5.00%, 11/15/22 | | $ | 2,215 | | | $ | 2,556,309 | |
Illinois Finance Authority, (Silver Cross Hospital and Medical Centers), 5.00%, 8/15/20 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,092,130 | |
Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, KY, (Norton Healthcare, Inc.), 5.00%, 10/1/31 | | | 3,200 | | | | 3,579,616 | |
Lycoming County Authority, PA, (Susquehanna Health System), 5.10%, 7/1/20 | | | 750 | | | | 808,808 | |
Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority, (Lowell General Hospital), 4.75%, 7/1/25 | | | 2,715 | | | | 2,885,230 | |
Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority, (Partners HealthCare System), 5.00%, 7/1/22 | | | 1,250 | | | | 1,356,275 | |
Michigan Finance Authority, (Beaumont Health), 5.00%, 8/1/22 | | | 1,500 | | | | 1,716,120 | |
New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority, (Princeton HealthCare System), 5.00%, 7/1/20 | | | 650 | | | | 718,179 | |
New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority, (Princeton HealthCare System), 5.00%, 7/1/21 | | | 760 | | | | 857,394 | |
New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority, (Princeton HealthCare System), 5.00%, 7/1/22 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,144,770 | |
New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority, (Princeton HealthCare System), 5.00%, 7/1/25 | | | 1,340 | | | | 1,582,848 | |
New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority, (Virtua Health, Inc.), 5.25%, 7/1/17 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,010,850 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (NYU Hospitals Center), 5.00%, 7/1/21 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,129,900 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (Orange Regional Medical Center), 5.00%, 12/1/26(1) | | | 1,500 | | | | 1,686,600 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (Orange Regional Medical Center), 5.00%, 12/1/27(1) | | | 1,200 | | | | 1,346,892 | |
Norfolk Economic Development Authority, VA, (Bon Secours Health System, Inc.), 5.00%, 11/1/27 | | | 2,500 | | | | 2,819,800 | |
Oklahoma Development Finance Authority, (St. John Health System), 5.00%, 2/15/26 | | | 5,000 | | | | 5,543,300 | |
Orange County Health Facilities Authority, FL, (Orlando Health, Inc.), 5.125%, 10/1/26 | | | 955 | | | | 1,037,426 | |
Orange County Health Facilities Authority, FL, (Orlando Health, Inc.), 5.375%, 10/1/23 | | | 970 | | | | 1,059,764 | |
Oregon Facilities Authority, (Providence Health and Services Group), 5.00%, 10/1/24 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,160,830 | |
Philadelphia Hospitals and Higher Education Facilities Authority, PA, (The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia), 5.00%, 7/1/32 | | | 925 | | | | 1,020,016 | |
Pulaski County, AR, (Arkansas Children’s Hospital), 5.00%, 3/1/25 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,187,520 | |
Rhode Island Health and Educational Building Corp., (Care New England Health System), 5.00%, 9/1/31 | | | 2,650 | | | | 2,715,905 | |
Southeastern Ohio Port Authority, (Memorial Health System Obligated Group), 5.00%, 12/1/17 | | | 490 | | | | 498,438 | |
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Southeastern Ohio Port Authority, (Memorial Health System Obligated Group), 5.00%, 12/1/18 | | $ | 490 | | | $ | 509,713 | |
Southeastern Ohio Port Authority, (Memorial Health System Obligated Group), 5.00%, 12/1/19 | | | 350 | | | | 372,152 | |
Southeastern Ohio Port Authority, (Memorial Health System Obligated Group), 5.00%, 12/1/20 | | | 375 | | | | 402,630 | |
Southeastern Ohio Port Authority, (Memorial Health System Obligated Group), 5.00%, 12/1/22 | | | 500 | | | | 537,250 | |
Southeastern Ohio Port Authority, (Memorial Health System Obligated Group), 5.00%, 12/1/23 | | | 250 | | | | 268,155 | |
Southeastern Ohio Port Authority, (Memorial Health System Obligated Group), 5.00%, 12/1/24 | | | 285 | | | | 305,050 | |
University of California, (Regents Medical Center), 5.00%, 5/15/22 | | | 890 | | | | 1,038,283 | |
Washington Township Health Care District, CA, 5.50%, 7/1/19 | | | 250 | | | | 271,688 | |
Washington Township Health Care District, CA, 5.75%, 7/1/24 | | | 1,750 | | | | 1,888,792 | |
Wisconsin Health and Educational Facilities Authority, (Ascension Senior Credit Group), 5.00%, 11/15/23 | | | 845 | | | | 1,001,350 | |
Wisconsin Health and Educational Facilities Authority, (Ascension Senior Credit Group), 5.00%, 11/15/24 | | | 625 | | | | 745,550 | |
Yuma Industrial Development Authority, AZ, (Yuma Regional Medical Center), 5.00%, 8/1/25 | | | 1,230 | | | | 1,410,133 | |
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| | | $ | 64,541,395 | |
| | | | | | | | |
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Housing — 0.7% | |
Allegheny County Residential Finance Authority, PA, SFMR, (AMT), 4.80%, 11/1/22 | | $ | 555 | | | $ | 556,077 | |
New Hope Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp., TX, (CHF-Collegiate Housing Corpus Christi II, LLC - Texas A&M University), 4.00%, 4/1/23 | | | 350 | | | | 370,114 | |
New Hope Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp., TX, (CHF-Collegiate Housing Corpus Christi II, LLC - Texas A&M University), 4.00%, 4/1/24 | | | 270 | | | | 284,472 | |
New Hope Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp., TX, (CHF-Collegiate Housing Corpus Christi II, LLC - Texas A&M University), 4.00%, 4/1/25 | | | 360 | | | | 378,263 | |
New Hope Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp., TX, (CHF-Collegiate Housing Corpus Christi II, LLC - Texas A&M University), 4.00%, 4/1/26 | | | 375 | | | | 391,519 | |
New Hope Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp., TX, (CHF-Collegiate Housing Corpus Christi II, LLC - Texas A&M University), 5.00%, 4/1/31 | | | 1,330 | | | | 1,439,419 | |
Sandoval County, NM, MFMR, 6.00%, 5/1/32(1) | | | 560 | | | | 560,106 | |
Texas Student Housing Corp., (University of North Texas), 9.375%, 7/1/06(2) | | | 95 | | | | 79,799 | |
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| | | $ | 4,059,769 | |
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| | 9 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
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Industrial Development Revenue — 4.9% | |
Amelia County Industrial Development Authority, VA, (Waste Management, Inc.), (AMT), 2.125% to 4/1/20 (Put Date), 4/1/27 | | $ | 1,870 | | | $ | 1,888,494 | |
Maine Finance Authority, (Casella Waste Systems, Inc.), (AMT), 5.125% to 8/1/25 (Put Date), 8/1/35(1) | | | 1,880 | | | | 1,817,998 | |
New Hampshire Business Finance Authority, (Casella Waste Systems, Inc.), (AMT), 4.00% to 10/1/19 (Put Date), 4/1/29(1) | | | 2,300 | | | | 2,274,056 | |
New Jersey Economic Development Authority, (New Jersey-American Water Co., Inc.), (AMT), 5.10%, 6/1/23 | | | 1,780 | | | | 1,935,412 | |
New York Energy Research and Development Authority, (New York Electric and Gas Corp.), 2.00% to 5/1/20 (Put Date), 6/1/29 | | | 3,000 | | | | 2,988,720 | |
New York Environmental Facilities Corp., (Casella Waste Systems, Inc.), (AMT), 3.75% to 12/2/19 (Put Date), 12/1/44(1) | | | 1,750 | | | | 1,722,122 | |
Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing Authority, (Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc.), (AMT), 6.75%, 10/1/18 | | | 500 | | | | 539,645 | |
Public Finance Authority, WI, (Celanese Corp.), (AMT), 5.00%, 1/1/24 | | | 3,000 | | | | 3,271,110 | |
Public Finance Authority, WI, (Waste Management, Inc.), (AMT), 2.625%, 11/1/25 | | | 1,000 | | | | 964,140 | |
Richland County, SC, (International Paper Co.), (AMT), 3.875%, 4/1/23 | | | 6,000 | | | | 6,301,140 | |
Whiting, IN, (BP Products North America, Inc.), (AMT), 5.00% to 3/1/23 (Put Date), 3/1/46 | | | 5,000 | | | | 5,662,850 | |
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| | | $ | 29,365,687 | |
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Insured – Cogeneration — 0.1% | |
Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing Authority, (Colver), (AMBAC), (AMT), 4.625%, 12/1/18 | | $ | 830 | | | $ | 835,976 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 835,976 | |
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Insured – Education — 1.6% | |
California Educational Facilities Authority, (Santa Clara University), (NPFG), 5.00%, 9/1/23 | | $ | 500 | | | $ | 580,710 | |
New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority, (Ramapo College), (AMBAC), 4.50%, 7/1/21 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,009,340 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (Educational Housing Services), (AMBAC), 5.25%, 7/1/21 | | | 2,025 | | | | 2,319,374 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (Rochester Institute of Technology), (AMBAC), 5.25%, 7/1/22 | | | 5,150 | | | | 5,959,323 | |
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| | | $ | 9,868,747 | |
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Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
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Insured – Electric Utilities — 0.5% | |
Louisiana Energy & Power Authority, (AGM), 5.25%, 6/1/25 | | $ | 1,125 | | | $ | 1,315,350 | |
Northern California Power Agency, (Hydroelectric), (AGC), 5.00%, 7/1/24 | | | 500 | | | | 523,815 | |
Paducah Electric Plant Board, KY, (AGM), 5.00%, 10/1/26 | | | 1,100 | | | | 1,287,385 | |
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| | | $ | 3,126,550 | |
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Insured – Escrowed / Prerefunded — 1.9% | |
Bethlehem Area School District, (AGM), Prerefunded to 1/15/20, 5.25%, 1/15/25 | | $ | 1,250 | | | $ | 1,387,862 | |
Cambria County, PA, (BAM), Escrowed to Maturity, 5.00%, 8/1/21 | | | 925 | | | | 1,061,428 | |
Denver City and County, Excise Tax Revenue, CO, (AGC), Prerefunded to 9/1/19, 6.00%, 9/1/23 | | | 5,000 | | | | 5,578,750 | |
North Hudson Sewer Authority, NJ, (NPFG), Escrowed to Maturity, 5.125%, 8/1/22 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,175,720 | |
Pittsburgh School District, PA, (AGM), Prerefunded to 9/1/20, 5.00%, 9/1/22 | | | 15 | | | | 16,847 | |
San Mateo County Transportation District, CA, (NPFG), Escrowed to Maturity, 5.25%, 6/1/17 | | | 500 | | | | 503,835 | |
Westmoreland Municipal Authority, PA, (FGIC), Escrowed to Maturity, 0.00%, 8/15/19 | | | 1,900 | | | | 1,844,121 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 11,568,563 | |
| | | | | | | | |
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Insured – General Obligations — 9.9% | |
Bolingbrook, IL, (AGM), 5.00%, 1/1/23 | | $ | 1,000 | | | $ | 1,136,530 | |
Boston, MA, (NPFG), 0.125%, 3/1/22 | | | 8,000 | | | | 7,393,920 | |
Cambria County, PA, (BAM), 5.00%, 8/1/21 | | | 1,455 | | | | 1,616,301 | |
Cambria County, PA, (BAM), 5.00%, 8/1/22 | | | 2,430 | | | | 2,730,955 | |
Delaware Valley Regional Finance Authority, PA, (AMBAC), 5.50%, 8/1/18 | | | 750 | | | | 790,088 | |
Freehold Regional High School District, NJ, (NPFG), 5.00%, 3/1/18 | | | 100 | | | | 103,628 | |
Hillsborough Township School District, NJ, (AGM), 5.375%, 10/1/18 | | | 970 | | | | 1,030,848 | |
Jackson Township Board of Education of Ocean County, NJ, (NPFG), 5.25%, 6/15/23 | | | 6,000 | | | | 7,022,160 | |
Linn County Community School District No. 9, OR, (Lebanon), (NPFG), 5.25%, 6/15/21 | | | 1,055 | | | | 1,216,816 | |
Linn County Community School District No. 9, OR, (Lebanon), (NPFG), 5.25%, 6/15/22 | | | 625 | | | | 735,106 | |
Livonia Public Schools School District, MI, (BAM), 5.00%, 5/1/22 | | | 1,675 | | | | 1,871,210 | |
Luzerne County, PA, (AGM), 5.00%, 11/15/22 | | | 2,250 | | | | 2,526,165 | |
McHenry County Community Unit School District No. 12, IL, (AGM), 5.00%, 1/1/23 | | | 940 | | | | 1,054,924 | |
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| | 10 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
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Insured – General Obligations (continued) | |
McHenry County Community Unit School District No. 12, IL, (AGM), 5.00%, 1/1/24 | | $ | 1,075 | | | $ | 1,215,965 | |
New Haven, CT, (AGM), 5.00%, 8/1/22 | | | 5,000 | | | | 5,563,600 | |
Pennsylvania, (NPFG), 5.375%, 7/1/19 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,091,220 | |
Philadelphia School District, PA, (AGM), 5.50%, 6/1/21 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,118,880 | |
Rockland County, NY, (AGM), 5.00%, 3/1/21 | | | 3,000 | | | | 3,345,450 | |
Rockland, NY, (AGM), 4.00%, 5/1/21 | | | 1,820 | | | | 1,965,254 | |
San Mateo County Community College District, CA, (Election of 2005), (NPFG), 0.00%, 9/1/22 | | | 3,000 | | | | 2,700,660 | |
Washington, (AMBAC), 0.00%, 12/1/22 | | | 10,000 | | | | 8,964,500 | |
West Virginia, (NPFG), 0.00%, 11/1/21 | | | 4,275 | | | | 3,917,311 | |
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| | | $ | 59,111,491 | |
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Insured – Hospital — 0.3% | |
Allegheny County Hospital Development Authority, PA, (UPMC Health System), (NPFG), 6.00%, 7/1/24 | | $ | 250 | | | $ | 308,805 | |
Oregon Health and Science University, (NPFG), 0.00%, 7/1/21 | | | 1,800 | | | | 1,590,336 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 1,899,141 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Insured – Other Revenue — 0.0%(3) | |
Cleveland, OH, Parking Facilities, (AGM), Escrowed to Maturity, 5.25%, 9/15/20 | | $ | 160 | | | $ | 181,176 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 181,176 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Insured – Special Tax Revenue — 2.6% | |
Garden State Preservation Trust, NJ, (AGM), 5.75%, 11/1/28 | | $ | 1,000 | | | $ | 1,225,930 | |
Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, (AMBAC), 0.00%, 6/15/22 | | | 7,000 | | | | 5,876,430 | |
Massachusetts, Special Obligation, (AGM), 5.50%, 6/1/21 | | | 5,000 | | | | 5,826,800 | |
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, Registration Fee Revenue, (AGM), 5.25%, 7/15/22 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,161,960 | |
Successor Agency to Burbank Redevelopment Agency, CA, (BAM), 5.00%, 12/1/22 | | | 1,305 | | | | 1,522,400 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 15,613,520 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Insured – Student Loan — 0.4% | |
Maine Educational Loan Authority, (AGC), 5.625%, 12/1/27 | | $ | 1,960 | | | $ | 2,094,750 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 2,094,750 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Insured – Transportation — 1.6% | |
New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority, (NPFG), 5.50%, 12/15/20 | | $ | 5,000 | | | $ | 5,532,750 | |
New Orleans Aviation Board, LA, (AGC), 6.00%, 1/1/23 | | | 1,040 | | | | 1,122,014 | |
Ohio Turnpike Commission, (NPFG), 5.50%, 2/15/18 | | | 1,750 | | | | 1,819,912 | |
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Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
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Insured – Transportation (continued) | |
Port of Oakland, CA, (NPFG), (AMT), 5.00%, 11/1/21 | | $ | 665 | | | $ | 680,189 | |
San Jose, CA, Airport Revenue, (AMBAC), (AMT), 5.50%, 3/1/18 | | | 675 | | | | 702,581 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 9,857,446 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Insured – Water and Sewer — 2.0% | |
Allegheny County Sanitation Authority, PA, (AGM), 5.00%, 6/1/24 | | $ | 500 | | | $ | 562,445 | |
Altoona City Authority Water Revenue, PA, (AGM), 5.25%, 11/1/19 | | | 1,355 | | | | 1,481,191 | |
Kansas City Water Revenue, MO, (BHAC), 5.00%, 12/1/23 | | | 3,125 | | | | 3,326,907 | |
Michigan Finance Authority, (Detroit Water and Sewerage Department), (AGM), 5.00%, 7/1/23 | | | 5,000 | | | | 5,772,250 | |
Passaic Valley Water Commission, NJ, (AGM), 5.00%, 12/15/17 | | | 1,020 | | | | 1,048,570 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 12,191,363 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Lease Revenue / Certificates of Participation — 1.0% | |
California Public Works, (University of California), Escrowed to Maturity, 5.25%, 6/1/20 | | $ | 500 | | | $ | 562,090 | |
California State Public Works Board, 5.00%, 11/1/26 | | | 2,725 | | | | 3,177,759 | |
Michigan Strategic Fund, Limited Obligation Revenue, (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams), 5.00%, 3/1/21 | | | 500 | | | | 566,060 | |
Saint Johns County, FL, School Board, 5.00%, 7/1/21 | | | 1,500 | | | | 1,710,030 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 6,015,939 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Other Revenue — 3.4% | |
Brooklyn Arena Local Development Corp., NY, (Barclays Center), 5.00%, 7/15/23 | | $ | 1,200 | | | $ | 1,369,176 | |
Brooklyn Arena Local Development Corp., NY, (Barclays Center), 5.00%, 7/15/24 | | | 1,500 | | | | 1,724,295 | |
California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Obligated Group), 5.00%, 11/1/23 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,180,320 | |
Central Falls Detention Facility Corp., RI, 7.25%, 7/15/35(4) | | | 1,200 | | | | 296,940 | |
New Mexico Municipal Energy Acquisition Authority, (SPA: Royal Bank of Canada), 1.276%, 8/1/19 (Put Date), 11/1/39(5) | | | 400 | | | | 398,440 | |
Non-Profit Preferred Funding Trust, Various States, 4.47%, 9/15/37(1) | | | 4,500 | | | | 4,571,910 | |
Otero County, NM, Jail Project Revenue, 5.75%, 4/1/18 | | | 115 | | | | 114,303 | |
Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, PA, (Transformation Initiative), 5.00%, 4/15/24 | | | 750 | | | | 832,508 | |
Riversouth Authority, OH, (Lazarus Building Redevelopment), 5.75%, 12/1/27 | | | 300 | | | | 305,286 | |
Seminole Tribe, FL, 5.50%, 10/1/24(1) | | | 1,825 | | | | 1,852,229 | |
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Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
| | | | | | | | |
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Other Revenue (continued) | |
Seminole Tribe, FL, 5.75%, 10/1/22(1) | | $ | 5,250 | | | $ | 5,334,787 | |
Will and Kankakee Counties Community Unit School District No. 255-U, IL, 5.00%, 6/1/23 | | | 675 | | | | 756,020 | |
Will and Kankakee Counties Community Unit School District No. 255-U, IL, 5.00%, 6/1/24 | | | 590 | | | | 664,517 | |
Will and Kankakee Counties Community Unit School District No. 255-U, IL, 5.00%, 6/1/25 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,131,250 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 20,531,981 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Senior Living / Life Care — 3.3% | |
Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority, (Church Home of Hartford, Inc.), 2.875%, 9/1/20(1) | | $ | 700 | | | $ | 687,141 | |
Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority, (Church Home of Hartford, Inc.), 3.25%, 9/1/21(1) | | | 700 | | | | 683,935 | |
Hawaii State Department of Budget and Finance, Special Purpose Senior Living Revenue, 5.00%, 11/15/27 | | | 1,775 | | | | 1,928,520 | |
Howard County, MD, (Vantage House), 5.00%, 4/1/21 | | | 335 | | | | 345,968 | |
Illinois Finance Authority, (Presbyterian Homes Obligated Group), 1.899%, 5/1/21 (Put Date), 5/1/36(5) | | | 1,300 | | | | 1,301,417 | |
Lancaster County Hospital Authority, PA, (Brethren Village), 5.00%, 7/1/20(6) | | | 1,155 | | | | 1,244,674 | |
Lancaster Industrial Development Authority, PA, (Garden Spot Village), 5.00%, 5/1/23 | | | 340 | | | | 368,954 | |
Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, (Volunteers of America), 5.00%, 11/1/17(1) | | | 100 | | | | 100,842 | |
Missouri Health and Educational Facilities Authority, (Bethesda Health Group, Inc.), 5.00%, 8/1/21 | | | 350 | | | | 375,774 | |
Missouri Health and Educational Facilities Authority, (Bethesda Health Group, Inc.), 5.00%, 8/1/22 | | | 315 | | | | 338,786 | |
Missouri Health and Educational Facilities Authority, (Bethesda Health Group, Inc.), 5.00%, 8/1/23 | | | 705 | | | | 758,700 | |
Missouri Health and Educational Facilities Authority, (Bethesda Health Group, Inc.), 5.00%, 8/1/24 | | | 380 | | | | 409,663 | |
New Jersey Economic Development Authority, (Cranes Mill Project), 5.50%, 7/1/18 | | | 135 | | | | 137,684 | |
North Miami, FL, (Imperial Club), 6.125%, 1/1/42 | | | 495 | | | | 353,846 | |
North Oaks, MN, (Waverly Gardens), 3.00%, 10/1/18 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,010,040 | |
North Oaks, MN, (Waverly Gardens), 4.00%, 10/1/20 | | | 1,230 | | | | 1,280,135 | |
North Oaks, MN, (Waverly Gardens), 4.00%, 10/1/21 | | | 1,380 | | | | 1,437,987 | |
North Oaks, MN, (Waverly Gardens), 4.00%, 10/1/22 | | | 1,435 | | | | 1,493,577 | |
Tempe Industrial Development Authority, AZ, (Friendship Village of Tempe), 6.00%, 12/1/27 | | | 2,140 | | | | 2,294,058 | |
Washington Housing Finance Commission, (Wesley Homes at Lea Hill), 3.75%, 7/1/26(1) | | | 3,420 | | | | 3,223,145 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 19,774,846 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | |
Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Special Tax Revenue — 6.5% | |
Detroit Downtown Development Authority, MI, 0.00%, 7/1/21 | | $ | 2,000 | | | $ | 1,621,620 | |
Garden State Preservation Trust, NJ, 4.00%, 11/1/23 | | | 2,040 | | | | 2,146,590 | |
Jurupa Public Financing Authority, CA, 5.00%, 9/1/21 | | | 600 | | | | 681,870 | |
Louisiana, Highway Improvement Revenue, 5.00%, 6/15/25 | | | 750 | | | | 889,462 | |
Michigan Finance Authority, Detroit Financial Recovery Income Tax Revenue, 4.00%, 10/1/24 | | | 2,500 | | | | 2,602,775 | |
Michigan Trunk Line, 5.00%, 11/15/23 | | | 600 | | | | 680,646 | |
Michigan Trunk Line, 5.00%, 11/15/26 | | | 1,100 | | | | 1,247,851 | |
Michigan Trunk Line, 5.00%, 11/15/28 | | | 2,000 | | | | 2,258,420 | |
Michigan Trunk Line, 5.00%, 11/15/29 | | | 1,500 | | | | 1,690,995 | |
New River Community Development District, FL, (Capital Improvements), 5.00%, 5/1/13(2) | | | 280 | | | | 0 | |
New River Community Development District, FL, (Capital Improvements), Series 2010A-2, 5.75%, 5/1/38 | | | 375 | | | | 344,793 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, Personal Income Tax Revenue, 5.00%, 2/15/22 | | | 3,000 | | | | 3,479,490 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, Sales Tax Revenue, 5.00%, 3/15/24 | | | 4,000 | | | | 4,755,520 | |
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, Oil Franchise Tax, 5.00%, 12/1/25 | | | 6,350 | | | | 7,382,192 | |
Poinciana West Community Development District, FL, 5.875%, 5/1/22 | | | 740 | | | | 743,160 | |
Saint Clair County Highway Revenue, IL, 4.00%, 1/1/22 | | | 350 | | | | 378,753 | |
Saint Clair County Highway Revenue, IL, 4.00%, 1/1/23 | | | 310 | | | | 336,136 | |
Saint Clair County Highway Revenue, IL, 4.00%, 1/1/24 | | | 360 | | | | 387,144 | |
South Orange County Public Financing Authority, CA, 5.00%, 8/15/24 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,121,810 | |
Sterling Hill Community Development District, FL, (Capital Improvements), 5.10%, 5/1/11(2) | | | 275 | | | | 0 | |
Sterling Hill Community Development District, FL, (Capital Improvements), 5.50%, 11/1/10(2) | | | 290 | | | | 202,957 | |
Terrebonne Levee and Conservation District, LA, (Public Improvement Sales Tax), 5.00%, 7/1/25 | | | 2,815 | | | | 3,167,748 | |
Winter Garden Village at Fowler Groves Community Development District, FL, 3.00%, 5/1/24 | | | 3,130 | | | | 3,015,661 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 39,135,593 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Student Loan — 1.3% | |
Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority, (AMT), 3.50%, 7/1/33 | | $ | 7,500 | | | $ | 6,746,175 | |
New Jersey Higher Education Assistance Authority, 5.25%, 6/1/21 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,061,790 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 7,807,965 | |
| | | | | | | | |
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Portfolio of Investments — continued
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Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Transportation — 17.2% | |
Allegheny County Airport Authority, PA, (Pittsburgh International Airport), (AMT), 5.00%, 1/1/26 | | $ | 840 | | | $ | 914,987 | |
Allegheny County Airport Authority, PA, (Pittsburgh International Airport), (AMT), 5.00%, 1/1/28 | | | 520 | | | | 561,631 | |
Bay Area Toll Authority, CA, Toll Bridge Revenue, (San Francisco Bay Area), Prerefunded to 4/1/19, 5.00%, 4/1/22 | | | 500 | | | | 539,245 | |
Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority, CA, (AMT), 5.00%, 7/1/20 | | | 2,455 | | | | 2,714,150 | |
Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority, CA, (AMT), 5.00%, 7/1/21 | | | 3,755 | | | | 4,239,470 | |
Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, 5.00%, 1/1/27 | | | 1,285 | | | | 1,483,571 | |
Chicago, IL, (Midway International Airport), (AMT), 5.00%, 1/1/21 | | | 500 | | | | 558,140 | |
Chicago, IL, (Midway International Airport), (AMT), 5.00%, 1/1/26 | | | 3,000 | | | | 3,463,590 | |
Chicago, IL, (O’Hare International Airport), (AMT), 5.00%, 1/1/21 | | | 950 | | | | 1,060,466 | |
Chicago, IL, (O’Hare International Airport), (AMT), 5.00%, 1/1/22 | | | 825 | | | | 931,400 | |
Chicago, IL, (O’Hare International Airport), (AMT), 5.00%, 1/1/23 | | | 1,300 | | | | 1,481,233 | |
Chicago, IL, (O’Hare International Airport), (AMT), 5.00%, 1/1/26 | | | 3,100 | | | | 3,530,342 | |
Delaware River Port Authority, 5.00%, 1/1/27 | | | 1,105 | | | | 1,206,594 | |
Georgia State Road and Tollway Authority, (Federal Highway Grant Anticipation Revenue Bonds), 5.00%, 6/1/21 | | | 3,000 | | | | 3,231,630 | |
Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, FL, (AMT), 5.00%, 10/1/21 | | | 4,750 | | | | 5,379,945 | |
Hawaii Airports System, 5.25%, 7/1/28 | | | 3,650 | | | | 4,078,802 | |
Kentucky Public Transportation Infrastructure Authority, 0.00%, 7/1/21 | | | 550 | | | | 480,882 | |
Long Beach Harbor Revenue, CA, 5.00%, 5/15/23 | | | 500 | | | | 558,015 | |
Los Angeles Department of Airports, CA, (Los Angeles International Airport), (AMT), 5.00%, 5/15/25 | | | 2,500 | | | | 2,981,725 | |
Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, TN, (AMT), 5.00%, 7/1/26 | | | 885 | | | | 1,021,874 | |
Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, TN, (AMT), 5.00%, 7/1/27 | | | 1,250 | | | | 1,433,937 | |
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NY, 5.00%, 11/15/21 | | | 3,000 | | | | 3,450,510 | |
Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority System, DC, 5.00%, 10/1/22 | | | 5,000 | | | | 5,590,850 | |
Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority System, DC, (AMT), 5.50%, 10/1/19 | | | 5,000 | | | | 5,325,600 | |
Metropolitan Washington Area Transit Authority, DC, (Gross Revenue), 5.25%, 7/1/21 | | | 7,500 | | | | 8,131,950 | |
New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority, 5.00%, 6/15/24 | | | 2,000 | | | | 2,061,840 | |
New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority, 5.00%, 6/15/28 | | | 2,500 | | | | 2,561,050 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Transportation (continued) | |
New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority, (Transportation Program), 2.11%, 12/15/21 (Put Date), 6/15/34(5) | | $ | 4,000 | | | $ | 3,889,520 | |
New Jersey Turnpike Authority, 5.00%, 1/1/20 | | | 1,500 | | | | 1,597,305 | |
North Texas Tollway Authority, 5.00%, 1/1/26 | | | 3,000 | | | | 3,479,220 | |
North Texas Tollway Authority, (Dallas North Tollway System Revenue), 6.00%, 1/1/23 | | | 5,000 | | | | 5,401,550 | |
Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing Authority, (National Railroad Passenger), (AMT), 5.00%, 11/1/25 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,098,030 | |
Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing Authority, (National Railroad Passenger), (AMT), 5.00%, 11/1/26 | | | 890 | | | | 972,165 | |
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, Series 2013C, 5.00%, 12/1/22 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,152,110 | |
Philadelphia, PA, Airport Revenue, (AMT), 5.00%, 6/15/23 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,113,390 | |
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, (AMT), 5.25%, 9/15/23 | | | 8,500 | | | | 8,840,340 | |
South Jersey Transportation Authority, NJ, 5.00%, 11/1/22 | | | 325 | | | | 364,566 | |
South Jersey Transportation Authority, NJ, 5.00%, 11/1/24 | | | 1,175 | | | | 1,337,549 | |
Virginia Transportation Board, 4.00%, 3/15/25 | | | 4,645 | | | | 5,053,667 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 103,272,841 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Water and Sewer — 0.6% | |
Chicago Water Revenue, IL, 5.00%, 11/1/22 | | $ | 1,000 | | | $ | 1,126,070 | |
Jefferson County Sewer Revenue, AL, 5.00%, 10/1/22 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,069,550 | |
New Jersey Economic Environmental Infrastructure Trust, 5.00%, 9/1/20 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,122,990 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 3,318,610 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
Total Tax-Exempt Municipal Securities — 97.8% (identified cost $564,231,557) | | | $ | 586,643,047 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Taxable Municipal Securities — 0.6% | |
| | |
| | | | | | | | |
Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
|
Insured-General Obligations — 0.4% | |
Detroit, MI, (AMBAC), 4.96%, 4/1/20 | | $ | 2,806 | | | $ | 2,771,873 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 2,771,873 | |
| | | | | | | | |
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| | 13 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
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Portfolio of Investments — continued
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Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Student Loan — 0.2% | |
Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority, 3.875%, 7/1/23 | | $ | 1,100 | | | $ | 1,088,813 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | $ | 1,088,813 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
Total Taxable Municipal Securities — 0.6% (identified cost $3,701,095) | | | $ | 3,860,686 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
Total Investments — 98.4% (identified cost $567,932,652) | | | $ | 590,503,733 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
Other Assets, Less Liabilities — 1.6% | | | $ | 9,345,916 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
Net Assets — 100.0% | | | $ | 599,849,649 | |
| | | | | | | | |
The percentage shown for each investment category in the Portfolio of Investments is based on net assets.
At March 31, 2017, the concentration of the Fund’s investments in the various states, determined as a percentage of net assets, is as follows:
| | | | |
Pennsylvania | | | 10.5% | |
Others, representing less than 10% individually | | | 87.9% | |
The Fund invests primarily in debt securities issued by municipalities. The ability of the issuers of the debt securities to meet their obligations may be affected by economic developments in a specific industry or municipality. In order to reduce the risk associated with such economic developments, at March 31, 2017, 21.9% of total investments are backed by bond insurance of various financial institutions and financial guaranty assurance agencies. The aggregate percentage insured by an individual financial institution or financial guaranty assurance agency ranged from 0.3% to 6.8% of total investments.
(1) | Security exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. These securities may be sold in certain transactions in reliance on an exemption from registration (normally to qualified institutional buyers). At March 31, 2017, the aggregate value of these securities is $25,861,763 or 4.3% of the Fund’s net assets. |
(2) | Defaulted security. Issuer has defaulted on the payment of interest and/or principal or has filed bankruptcy. |
(3) | Amount is less than 0.05%. |
(4) | Security is in default and making only partial interest payments. |
(5) | Variable rate security. The stated interest rate represents the rate in effect at March 31, 2017. |
(6) | When-issued security. |
Abbreviations:
| | | | |
AGC | | – | | Assured Guaranty Corp. |
AGM | | – | | Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. |
AMBAC | | – | | AMBAC Financial Group, Inc. |
AMT | | – | | Interest earned from these securities may be considered a tax preference item for purposes of the Federal Alternative Minimum Tax. |
BAM | | – | | Build America Mutual Assurance Co. |
BHAC | | – | | Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corp. |
| | | | |
FGIC | | – | | Financial Guaranty Insurance Company |
MFMR | | – | | Multi-Family Mortgage Revenue |
NPFG | | – | | National Public Finance Guaranty Corp. |
PSF | | – | | Permanent School Fund |
SFMR | | – | | Single Family Mortgage Revenue |
SPA | | – | | Standby Bond Purchase Agreement |
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March 31, 2017
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
| | | | |
Assets | | March 31, 2017 | |
Investments, at value (identified cost, $567,932,652) | | $ | 590,503,733 | |
Cash | | | 80,747 | |
Interest receivable | | | 6,915,750 | |
Receivable for investments sold | | | 5,650,572 | |
Receivable for Fund shares sold | | | 2,259,565 | |
Total assets | | $ | 605,410,367 | |
|
Liabilities | |
Demand note payable | | $ | 500,000 | |
Payable for when-issued securities | | | 1,243,739 | |
Payable for Fund shares redeemed | | | 2,728,739 | |
Distributions payable | | | 613,808 | |
Payable to affiliates: | | | | |
Investment adviser fee | | | 203,526 | |
Distribution and service fees | | | 104,864 | |
Accrued expenses | | | 166,042 | |
Total liabilities | | $ | 5,560,718 | |
Net Assets | | $ | 599,849,649 | |
|
Sources of Net Assets | |
Paid-in capital | | $ | 608,399,057 | |
Accumulated net realized loss | | | (31,173,409 | ) |
Accumulated undistributed net investment income | | | 52,920 | |
Net unrealized appreciation | | | 22,571,081 | |
Net Assets | | $ | 599,849,649 | |
|
Class A Shares | |
Net Assets | | $ | 212,891,227 | |
Shares Outstanding | | | 21,609,786 | |
Net Asset Value and Redemption Price Per Share | | | | |
(net assets ÷ shares of beneficial interest outstanding) | | $ | 9.85 | |
Maximum Offering Price Per Share | | | | |
(100 ÷ 97.75 of net asset value per share) | | $ | 10.08 | |
|
Class B Shares | |
Net Assets | | $ | 267,944 | |
Shares Outstanding | | | 27,187 | |
Net Asset Value and Offering Price Per Share* | | | | |
(net assets ÷ shares of beneficial interest outstanding) | | $ | 9.86 | |
|
Class C Shares | |
Net Assets | | $ | 100,359,601 | |
Shares Outstanding | | | 10,860,181 | |
Net Asset Value and Offering Price Per Share* | | | | |
(net assets ÷ shares of beneficial interest outstanding) | | $ | 9.24 | |
|
Class I Shares | |
Net Assets | | $ | 286,330,877 | |
Shares Outstanding | | | 29,054,977 | |
Net Asset Value, Offering Price and Redemption Price Per Share | | | | |
(net assets ÷ shares of beneficial interest outstanding) | | $ | 9.85 | |
On sales of $100,000 or more, the offering price of Class A shares is reduced.
* | Redemption price per share is equal to the net asset value less any applicable contingent deferred sales charge. |
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| | 15 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
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Statement of Operations
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Investment Income | | Year Ended March 31, 2017 | |
Interest | | $ | 23,530,161 | |
Total investment income | | $ | 23,530,161 | |
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Expenses | | | | |
Investment adviser fee | | $ | 2,673,249 | |
Distribution and service fees | | | | |
Class A | | | 384,170 | |
Class B | | | 4,463 | |
Class C | | | 1,012,453 | |
Trustees’ fees and expenses | | | 37,360 | |
Custodian fee | | | 159,349 | |
Transfer and dividend disbursing agent fees | | | 200,246 | |
Legal and accounting services | | | 88,291 | |
Printing and postage | | | 31,951 | |
Registration fees | | | 185,354 | |
Miscellaneous | | | 106,812 | |
Total expenses | | $ | 4,883,698 | |
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Net investment income | | $ | 18,646,463 | |
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Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | | | |
Net realized gain (loss) — | | | | |
Investment transactions | | $ | 413,712 | |
Net realized gain | | $ | 413,712 | |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) — | | | | |
Investments | | $ | (22,731,477 | ) |
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | $ | (22,731,477 | ) |
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Net realized and unrealized loss | | $ | (22,317,765 | ) |
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Net decrease in net assets from operations | | $ | (3,671,302 | ) |
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| | 16 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
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| | Year Ended March 31, | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 2017 | | | 2016 | |
From operations — | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income | | $ | 18,646,463 | | | $ | 19,422,973 | |
Net realized gain (loss) from investment transactions | | | 413,712 | | | | (199,560 | ) |
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) from investments | | | (22,731,477 | ) | | | (1,045,963 | ) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from operations | | $ | (3,671,302 | ) | | $ | 18,177,450 | |
Distributions to shareholders — | | | | | | | | |
From net investment income | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | $ | (7,187,735 | ) | | $ | (8,582,588 | ) |
Class B | | | (10,189 | ) | | | (20,429 | ) |
Class C | | | (2,314,003 | ) | | | (2,645,480 | ) |
Class I | | | (9,069,370 | ) | | | (8,173,070 | ) |
Total distributions to shareholders | | $ | (18,581,297 | ) | | $ | (19,421,567 | ) |
Transactions in shares of beneficial interest — | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from sale of shares | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | $ | 31,966,331 | | | $ | 24,778,691 | |
Class B | | | 134,629 | | | | 216,947 | |
Class C | | | 8,914,498 | | | | 13,947,244 | |
Class I | | | 156,224,884 | | | | 125,502,708 | |
Net asset value of shares issued to shareholders in payment of distributions declared | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | | 6,019,167 | | | | 7,154,006 | |
Class B | | | 9,439 | | | | 18,058 | |
Class C | | | 1,686,678 | | | | 1,921,245 | |
Class I | | | 2,667,932 | | | | 2,318,775 | |
Cost of shares redeemed | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | | (92,478,660 | ) | | | (64,065,784 | ) |
Class B | | | (265,915 | ) | | | (191,089 | ) |
Class C | | | (26,066,863 | ) | | | (20,771,551 | ) |
Class I | | | (159,315,428 | ) | | | (70,040,408 | ) |
Net asset value of shares exchanged | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | | 141,780 | | | | 825,559 | |
Class B | | | (141,780 | ) | | | (825,559 | ) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from Fund share transactions | | $ | (70,503,308 | ) | | $ | 20,788,842 | |
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Net increase (decrease) in net assets | | $ | (92,755,907 | ) | | $ | 19,544,725 | |
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Net Assets | |
At beginning of year | | $ | 692,605,556 | | | $ | 673,060,831 | |
At end of year | | $ | 599,849,649 | | | $ | 692,605,556 | |
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Accumulated undistributed net investment income included in net assets | |
At end of year | | $ | 52,920 | | | $ | 49,822 | |
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| | 17 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Financial Highlights
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| | Class A | |
| | Year Ended March 31, | |
| | 2017 | | | 2016 | | | 2015 | | | 2014 | | | 2013 | |
Net asset value — Beginning of year | | $ | 10.160 | | | $ | 10.180 | | | $ | 10.000 | | | $ | 10.380 | | | $ | 10.230 | |
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Income (Loss) From Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income(1) | | $ | 0.283 | | | $ | 0.298 | | | $ | 0.314 | | | $ | 0.335 | | | $ | 0.336 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | | (0.311 | ) | | | (0.020 | ) | | | 0.179 | | | | (0.381 | ) | | | 0.152 | |
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Total income (loss) from operations | | $ | (0.028 | ) | | $ | 0.278 | | | $ | 0.493 | | | $ | (0.046 | ) | | $ | 0.488 | |
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Less Distributions | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
From net investment income | | $ | (0.282 | ) | | $ | (0.298 | ) | | $ | (0.313 | ) | | $ | (0.334 | ) | | $ | (0.338 | ) |
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Total distributions | | $ | (0.282 | ) | | $ | (0.298 | ) | | $ | (0.313 | ) | | $ | (0.334 | ) | | $ | (0.338 | ) |
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Net asset value — End of year | | $ | 9.850 | | | $ | 10.160 | | | $ | 10.180 | | | $ | 10.000 | | | $ | 10.380 | |
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Total Return(2) | | | (0.29 | )% | | | 2.79 | % | | | 4.98 | % | | | (0.39 | )% | | | 4.88 | % |
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Ratios/Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of year (000’s omitted) | | $ | 212,891 | | | $ | 275,435 | | | $ | 307,562 | | | $ | 282,612 | | | $ | 343,994 | |
Ratios (as a percentage of average daily net assets): | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses(3) | | | 0.67 | % | | | 0.66 | % | | | 0.69 | % | | | 0.68 | % | | | 0.66 | % |
Net investment income | | | 2.82 | % | | | 2.95 | % | | | 3.09 | % | | | 3.34 | % | | | 3.22 | % |
Portfolio Turnover | | | 17 | % | | | 10 | % | | | 7 | % | | | 18 | % | | | 14 | % |
(1) | Computed using average shares outstanding. |
(2) | Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value with all distributions reinvested and do not reflect the effect of sales charges. |
(3) | Excludes the effect of custody fee credits, if any, of less than 0.005%. Effective September 1, 2015, custody fee credits, which were earned on cash deposit balances, were discontinued by the custodian. |
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| | 18 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Financial Highlights — continued
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| | Class B | |
| | Year Ended March 31, | |
| | 2017 | | | 2016 | | | 2015 | | | 2014 | | | 2013 | |
Net asset value — Beginning of year | | $ | 10.170 | | | $ | 10.190 | | | $ | 10.000 | | | $ | 10.390 | | | $ | 10.230 | |
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Income (Loss) From Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income(1) | | $ | 0.208 | | | $ | 0.224 | | | $ | 0.241 | | | $ | 0.259 | | | $ | 0.258 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | | (0.311 | ) | | | (0.022 | ) | | | 0.186 | | | | (0.390 | ) | | | 0.162 | |
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Total income (loss) from operations | | $ | (0.103 | ) | | $ | 0.202 | | | $ | 0.427 | | | $ | (0.131 | ) | | $ | 0.420 | |
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Less Distributions | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
From net investment income | | $ | (0.207 | ) | | $ | (0.222 | ) | | $ | (0.237 | ) | | $ | (0.259 | ) | | $ | (0.260 | ) |
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Total distributions | | $ | (0.207 | ) | | $ | (0.222 | ) | | $ | (0.237 | ) | | $ | (0.259 | ) | | $ | (0.260 | ) |
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Net asset value — End of year | | $ | 9.860 | | | $ | 10.170 | | | $ | 10.190 | | | $ | 10.000 | | | $ | 10.390 | |
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Total Return(2) | | | (1.03 | )% | | | 2.02 | % | | | 4.30 | % | | | (1.23 | )% | | | 4.10 | % |
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Ratios/Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of year (000’s omitted) | | $ | 268 | | | $ | 550 | | | $ | 1,342 | | | $ | 2,360 | | | $ | 3,553 | |
Ratios (as a percentage of average daily net assets): | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses(3) | | | 1.42 | % | | | 1.41 | % | | | 1.44 | % | | | 1.43 | % | | | 1.41 | % |
Net investment income | | | 2.07 | % | | | 2.22 | % | | | 2.38 | % | | | 2.59 | % | | | 2.48 | % |
Portfolio Turnover | | | 17 | % | | | 10 | % | | | 7 | % | | | 18 | % | | | 14 | % |
(1) | Computed using average shares outstanding. |
(2) | Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value with all distributions reinvested and do not reflect the effect of sales charges. |
(3) | Excludes the effect of custody fee credits, if any, of less than 0.005%. Effective September 1, 2015, custody fee credits, which were earned on cash deposit balances, were discontinued by the custodian. |
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| | 19 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Financial Highlights — continued
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| | Class C | |
| | Year Ended March 31, | |
| | 2017 | | | 2016 | | | 2015 | | | 2014 | | | 2013 | |
Net asset value — Beginning of year | | $ | 9.530 | | | $ | 9.550 | | | $ | 9.380 | | | $ | 9.740 | | | $ | 9.590 | |
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Income (Loss) From Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income(1) | | $ | 0.195 | | | $ | 0.209 | | | $ | 0.223 | | | $ | 0.244 | | | $ | 0.241 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | | (0.291 | ) | | | (0.020 | ) | | | 0.169 | | | | (0.361 | ) | | | 0.152 | |
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Total income (loss) from operations | | $ | (0.096 | ) | | $ | 0.189 | | | $ | 0.392 | | | $ | (0.117 | ) | | $ | 0.393 | |
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Less Distributions | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
From net investment income | | $ | (0.194 | ) | | $ | (0.209 | ) | | $ | (0.222 | ) | | $ | (0.243 | ) | | $ | (0.243 | ) |
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Total distributions | | $ | (0.194 | ) | | $ | (0.209 | ) | | $ | (0.222 | ) | | $ | (0.243 | ) | | $ | (0.243 | ) |
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Net asset value — End of year | | $ | 9.240 | | | $ | 9.530 | | | $ | 9.550 | | | $ | 9.380 | | | $ | 9.740 | |
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Total Return(2) | | | (1.03 | )% | | | 2.01 | % | | | 4.21 | % | | | (1.17 | )% | | | 4.10 | % |
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Ratios/Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of year (000’s omitted) | | $ | 100,360 | | | $ | 119,453 | | | $ | 124,647 | | | $ | 115,091 | | | $ | 144,911 | |
Ratios (as a percentage of average daily net assets): | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses(3) | | | 1.42 | % | | | 1.41 | % | | | 1.44 | % | | | 1.43 | % | | | 1.41 | % |
Net investment income | | | 2.07 | % | | | 2.21 | % | | | 2.34 | % | | | 2.59 | % | | | 2.47 | % |
Portfolio Turnover | | | 17 | % | | | 10 | % | | | 7 | % | | | 18 | % | | | 14 | % |
(1) | Computed using average shares outstanding. |
(2) | Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value with all distributions reinvested and do not reflect the effect of sales charges. |
(3) | Excludes the effect of custody fee credits, if any, of less than 0.005%. Effective September 1, 2015, custody fee credits, which were earned on cash deposit balances, were discontinued by the custodian. |
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| | 20 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Financial Highlights — continued
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Class I | |
| | Year Ended March 31, | |
| | 2017 | | | 2016 | | | 2015 | | | 2014 | | | 2013 | |
Net asset value — Beginning of year | | $ | 10.170 | | | $ | 10.190 | | | $ | 10.000 | | | $ | 10.380 | | | $ | 10.230 | |
| | | | | |
Income (Loss) From Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income(1) | | $ | 0.298 | | | $ | 0.314 | | | $ | 0.328 | | | $ | 0.347 | | | $ | 0.351 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | | (0.321 | ) | | | (0.021 | ) | | | 0.191 | | | | (0.377 | ) | | | 0.152 | |
| | | | | |
Total income (loss) from operations | | $ | (0.023 | ) | | $ | 0.293 | | | $ | 0.519 | | | $ | (0.030 | ) | | $ | 0.503 | |
| | | | | |
Less Distributions | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
From net investment income | | $ | (0.297 | ) | | $ | (0.313 | ) | | $ | (0.329 | ) | | $ | (0.350 | ) | | $ | (0.353 | ) |
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Total distributions | | $ | (0.297 | ) | | $ | (0.313 | ) | | $ | (0.329 | ) | | $ | (0.350 | ) | | $ | (0.353 | ) |
| | | | | |
Net asset value — End of year | | $ | 9.850 | | | $ | 10.170 | | | $ | 10.190 | | | $ | 10.000 | | | $ | 10.380 | |
| | | | | |
Total Return(2) | | | (0.24 | )% | | | 2.94 | % | | | 5.24 | % | | | (0.24 | )% | | | 5.04 | % |
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Ratios/Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of year (000’s omitted) | | $ | 286,331 | | | $ | 297,168 | | | $ | 239,511 | | | $ | 131,384 | | | $ | 228,148 | |
Ratios (as a percentage of average daily net assets): | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses(3) | | | 0.52 | % | | | 0.51 | % | | | 0.54 | % | | | 0.53 | % | | | 0.51 | % |
Net investment income | | | 2.97 | % | | | 3.10 | % | | | 3.23 | % | | | 3.45 | % | | | 3.37 | % |
Portfolio Turnover | | | 17 | % | | | 10 | % | | | 7 | % | | | 18 | % | | | 14 | % |
(1) | Computed using average shares outstanding. |
(2) | Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value with all distributions reinvested. |
(3) | Excludes the effect of custody fee credits, if any, of less than 0.005%. Effective September 1, 2015, custody fee credits, which were earned on cash deposit balances, were discontinued by the custodian. |
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| | 21 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements
1 Significant Accounting Policies
Eaton Vance National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund (the Fund) is a diversified series of Eaton Vance Investment Trust (the Trust). The Trust is a Massachusetts business trust registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company. The Fund’s investment objective is to provide current income exempt from regular federal income tax. The Fund offers four classes of shares. Class A shares are generally sold subject to a sales charge imposed at time of purchase. Class B and Class C shares are sold at net asset value and are generally subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (see Note 5). Class I shares are sold at net asset value and are not subject to a sales charge. Class B shares held for the longer of (i) four years or (ii) the time at which the contingent deferred sales charge applicable to such shares expires will automatically convert to Class A shares as described in the Fund’s prospectus. Beginning January 1, 2012, Class B shares are only available for purchase upon exchange from another Eaton Vance fund or through reinvestment of distributions. Each class represents a pro-rata interest in the Fund, but votes separately on class-specific matters and (as noted below) is subject to different expenses. Realized and unrealized gains and losses are allocated daily to each class of shares based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Net investment income, other than class-specific expenses, is allocated daily to each class of shares based upon the ratio of the value of each class’s paid shares to the total value of all paid shares. Each class of shares differs in its distribution plan and certain other class-specific expenses.
The following is a summary of significant accounting policies of the Fund. The policies are in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (U.S. GAAP). The Fund is an investment company and follows accounting and reporting guidance in the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946.
A Investment Valuation — The following methodologies are used to determine the market value or fair value of investments.
Debt Obligations. Debt obligations are generally valued on the basis of valuations provided by third party pricing services, as derived from such services’ pricing models. Inputs to the models may include, but are not limited to, reported trades, executable bid and asked prices, broker/dealer quotations, prices or yields of securities with similar characteristics, interest rates, anticipated prepayments, benchmark curves or information pertaining to the issuer, as well as industry and economic events. The pricing services may use a matrix approach, which considers information regarding securities with similar characteristics to determine the valuation for a security. Short-term obligations purchased with a remaining maturity of sixty days or less for which a valuation from a third party pricing service is not readily available may be valued at amortized cost, which approximates fair value.
Fair Valuation. Investments for which valuations or market quotations are not readily available or are deemed unreliable are valued at fair value using methods determined in good faith by or at the direction of the Trustees of the Fund in a manner that fairly reflects the security’s value, or the amount that the Fund might reasonably expect to receive for the security upon its current sale in the ordinary course. Each such determination is based on a consideration of relevant factors, which are likely to vary from one pricing context to another. These factors may include, but are not limited to, the type of security, the existence of any contractual restrictions on the security’s disposition, the price and extent of public trading in similar securities of the issuer or of comparable entities, quotations or relevant information obtained from broker/dealers or other market participants, information obtained from the issuer, analysts, and/or the appropriate stock exchange (for exchange-traded securities), an analysis of the entity’s financial condition, and an evaluation of the forces that influence the issuer and the market(s) in which the security is purchased and sold.
B Investment Transactions and Related Income — Investment transactions for financial statement purposes are accounted for on a trade date basis. Realized gains and losses on investments sold are determined on the basis of identified cost. Interest income is recorded on the basis of interest accrued, adjusted for amortization of premium or accretion of discount.
C Federal Taxes — The Fund’s policy is to comply with the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies and to distribute to shareholders each year substantially all of its taxable, if any, and tax-exempt net investment income, and all or substantially all of its net realized capital gains. Accordingly, no provision for federal income or excise tax is necessary. The Fund intends to satisfy conditions which will enable it to designate distributions from the interest income generated by its investments in non-taxable municipal securities, which are exempt from regular federal income tax when received by the Fund, as exempt-interest dividends. The portion of such interest, if any, earned on private activity bonds issued after August 7, 1986, may be considered a tax preference item to shareholders.
As of March 31, 2017, the Fund had no uncertain tax positions that would require financial statement recognition, de-recognition, or disclosure. The Fund files a U.S. federal income tax return annually after its fiscal year-end, which is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service for a period of three years from the date of filing.
D Expenses — The majority of expenses of the Trust are directly identifiable to an individual fund. Expenses which are not readily identifiable to a specific fund are allocated taking into consideration, among other things, the nature and type of expense and the relative size of the funds.
E Legal Fees — Legal fees and other related expenses incurred as part of negotiations of the terms and requirement of capital infusions, or that are expected to result in the restructuring of, or a plan of reorganization for, an investment are recorded as realized losses. Ongoing expenditures to protect or enhance an investment are treated as operating expenses.
F Use of Estimates — The preparation of the financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and expense during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements — continued
G Indemnifications — Under the Trust’s organizational documents, its officers and Trustees may be indemnified against certain liabilities and expenses arising out of the performance of their duties to the Fund. Under Massachusetts law, if certain conditions prevail, shareholders of a Massachusetts business trust (such as the Trust) could be deemed to have personal liability for the obligations of the Trust. However, the Trust’s Declaration of Trust contains an express disclaimer of liability on the part of Fund shareholders and the By-laws provide that the Trust shall assume the defense on behalf of any Fund shareholders. Moreover, the By-laws also provide for indemnification out of Fund property of any shareholder held personally liable solely by reason of being or having been a shareholder for all loss or expense arising from such liability. Additionally, in the normal course of business, the Fund enters into agreements with service providers that may contain indemnification clauses. The Fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Fund that have not yet occurred.
H When-Issued Securities and Delayed Delivery Transactions — The Fund may purchase or sell securities on a delayed delivery or when-issued basis. Payment and delivery may take place after the customary settlement period for that security. At the time the transaction is negotiated, the price of the security that will be delivered is fixed. The Fund maintains cash and/or security positions for these commitments such that sufficient liquid assets will be available to make payments upon settlement. Securities purchased on a delayed delivery or when-issued basis are marked-to-market daily and begin earning interest on settlement date. Losses may arise due to changes in the market value of the underlying securities or if the counterparty does not perform under the contract.
2 Distributions to Shareholders and Income Tax Information
The net investment income of the Fund is determined daily and substantially all of the net investment income so determined is declared as a dividend to shareholders of record at the time of declaration. Distributions are declared separately for each class of shares. Distributions are paid monthly. Distributions of realized capital gains (reduced by available capital loss carryforwards) are made at least annually. Shareholders may reinvest income and capital gain distributions in additional shares of the same class of the Fund at the net asset value as of the reinvestment date or, at the election of the shareholder, receive distributions in cash. Distributions to shareholders are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from U.S. GAAP. As required by U.S. GAAP, only distributions in excess of tax basis earnings and profits are reported in the financial statements as a return of capital. Permanent differences between book and tax accounting relating to distributions are reclassified to paid-in capital. For tax purposes, distributions from short-term capital gains are considered to be from ordinary income.
The tax character of distributions declared for the years ended March 31, 2017 and March 31, 2016 was as follows:
| | | | | | | | |
| | Year Ended March 31, | |
| | 2017 | | | 2016 | |
| | |
Distributions declared from: | | | | | | | | |
Tax-exempt income | | $ | 18,386,367 | | | $ | 19,152,106 | |
Ordinary income | | $ | 194,930 | | | $ | 269,461 | |
During the year ended March 31, 2017, accumulated net realized loss was decreased by $13,279,350, accumulated undistributed net investment income was decreased by $62,068 and paid-in capital was decreased by $13,217,282 due to expired capital loss carryforwards and differences between book and tax accounting, primarily for premium amortization and accretion of market discount. These reclassifications had no effect on the net assets or net asset value per share of the Fund.
As of March 31, 2017, the components of distributable earnings (accumulated losses) on a tax basis were as follows:
| | | | |
Undistributed tax-exempt income | | $ | 723,228 | |
Capital loss carryforwards and deferred capital losses | | $ | (31,655,373 | ) |
Net unrealized appreciation | | $ | 22,996,545 | |
Other temporary differences | | $ | (613,808 | ) |
The differences between components of distributable earnings (accumulated losses) on a tax basis and the amounts reflected in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities are primarily due to the timing of recognizing distributions to shareholders, premium amortization, accretion of market discount and defaulted bond interest.
At March 31, 2017, the Fund, for federal income tax purposes, had capital loss carryforwards of $19,393,619 and deferred capital losses of $12,261,754 which would reduce its taxable income arising from future net realized gains on investment transactions, if any, to the extent permitted by the Internal Revenue Code, and thus would reduce the amount of distributions to shareholders, which would otherwise be necessary to relieve the Fund of any liability for federal income or excise tax. Such capital loss carryforwards will expire on March 31, 2018 ($12,920,477) and March 31, 2019
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements — continued
($6,473,142) and their character is short-term. Under tax regulations, capital losses incurred in taxable years beginning after December 2010 are considered deferred capital losses and are treated as arising on the first day of the Fund’s next taxable year, retaining the same short-term or long-term character as when originally deferred. Deferred capital losses are required to be used prior to capital loss carryforwards, which carry an expiration date. As a result of this ordering rule, capital loss carryforwards may be more likely to expire unused. Of the deferred capital losses at March 31, 2017, $11,542,360 are short-term and $719,394 are long-term.
The cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments of the Fund at March 31, 2017, as determined on a federal income tax basis, were as follows:
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Aggregate cost | | $ | 567,507,188 | |
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Gross unrealized appreciation | | $ | 28,291,000 | |
Gross unrealized depreciation | | | (5,294,455 | ) |
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Net unrealized appreciation | | $ | 22,996,545 | |
3 Investment Adviser Fee and Other Transactions with Affiliates
The investment adviser fee is earned by Boston Management and Research (BMR), a subsidiary of Eaton Vance Management (EVM), as compensation for management and investment advisory services rendered to the Fund. The fee is based upon a percentage of average daily net assets plus a percentage of gross income (i.e., income other than gains from the sale of securities) as presented in the following table and is payable monthly.
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Daily Net Assets | | Annual Asset Rate | | | Daily Income Rate | |
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Up to $500 million | | | 0.300 | % | | | 3.00 | % |
$500 million up to $1 billion | | | 0.275 | | | | 2.75 | |
On average daily net assets of $1 billion or more, the rates are further reduced.
For the year ended March 31, 2017, the investment adviser fee amounted to $2,673,249 or 0.40% of the Fund’s average daily net assets.
EVM serves as the administrator of the Fund, but receives no compensation. EVM provides sub-transfer agency and related services to the Fund pursuant to a Sub-Transfer Agency Support Services Agreement. For the year ended March 31, 2017, EVM earned $9,963 from the Fund pursuant to such agreement, which is included in transfer and dividend disbursing agent fees on the Statement of Operations. The Fund was informed that Eaton Vance Distributors, Inc. (EVD), an affiliate of EVM and the Fund’s principal underwriter, received $9,519 as its portion of the sales charge on sales of Class A shares for the year ended March 31, 2017. EVD also received distribution and service fees from Class A, Class B and Class C shares (see Note 4) and contingent deferred sales charges (see Note 5).
Trustees and officers of the Fund who are members of EVM’s or BMR’s organizations receive remuneration for their services to the Fund out of the investment adviser fee. Trustees of the Fund who are not affiliated with the investment adviser may elect to defer receipt of all or a percentage of their annual fees in accordance with the terms of the Trustees Deferred Compensation Plan. For the year ended March 31, 2017, no significant amounts have been deferred. Certain officers and Trustees of the Fund are officers of the above organizations.
4 Distribution Plans
The Fund has in effect a distribution plan for Class A shares (Class A Plan) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. Pursuant to the Class A Plan, the Fund pays EVD a distribution and service fee not exceeding 0.25% per annum of its average daily net assets attributable to Class A shares for distribution services and facilities provided to the Fund by EVD, as well as for personal services and/or the maintenance of shareholder accounts. The Trustees approved distribution and service fee payments equal to 0.15% per annum of its average daily net assets attributable to Class A shares. Distribution and service fees paid or accrued to EVD for the year ended March 31, 2017 amounted to $384,170 for Class A shares.
The Fund also has in effect distribution plans for Class B shares (Class B Plan) and Class C shares (Class C Plan) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. Pursuant to the Class B and Class C Plans, the Fund pays EVD amounts equal to 0.75% per annum of its average daily net assets attributable to Class B and Class C shares for providing ongoing distribution services and facilities to the Fund. For the year ended March 31, 2017, the Fund paid or accrued to EVD $3,719 and $843,711 for Class B and Class C shares, respectively.
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements — continued
Pursuant to the Class B and Class C Plans, the Fund also makes payments of service fees to EVD, financial intermediaries and other persons in amounts not exceeding 0.25% per annum of its average daily net assets attributable to that class. The Trustees approved service fee payments equal to 0.15% per annum of its average daily net assets attributable to Class B and Class C shares. Service fees paid or accrued are for personal services and/or the maintenance of shareholder accounts. They are separate and distinct from the Class B and Class C sales commissions and distribution fees payable to EVD. Service fees paid or accrued for the year ended March 31, 2017 amounted to $744 and $168,742 for Class B and Class C shares, respectively.
Distribution and service fees are subject to the limitations contained in the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Rule 2341(d) and for Class B, are further limited to a 3% maximum sales charge as determined in accordance with such rule.
5 Contingent Deferred Sales Charges
A contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) generally is imposed on redemptions of Class B shares made within four years of purchase and on redemptions of Class C shares made within one year of purchase. Class A shares may be subject to a 1% CDSC if redeemed within eighteen months of purchase (depending on the circumstances of purchase). Generally, the CDSC is based upon the lower of the net asset value at date of redemption or date of purchase. No charge is levied on shares acquired by reinvestment of dividends or capital gain distributions. The CDSC for Class B shares is imposed at declining rates that begin at 3% in the case of redemptions in the first year after purchase, declining half a percentage point in the second and third year and one percentage point in the fourth year. Class C shares are subject to a 1% CDSC if redeemed within one year of purchase. For the year ended March 31, 2017, the Fund was informed that EVD received less than $100 and $5,000 of CDSCs paid by Class A and Class C shareholders, respectively, and no CDSCs paid by Class B shareholders.
6 Purchases and Sales of Investments
Purchases and sales of investments, other than short-term obligations, aggregated $114,100,978 and $155,846,844, respectively, for the year ended March 31, 2017.
7 Shares of Beneficial Interest
The Fund’s Declaration of Trust permits the Trustees to issue an unlimited number of full and fractional shares of beneficial interest (without par value). Such shares may be issued in a number of different series (such as the Fund) and classes. Transactions in Fund shares were as follows:
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Class A | | 2017 | | | 2016 | |
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Sales | | | 3,199,829 | | | | 2,453,631 | |
Issued to shareholders electing to receive payments of distributions in Fund shares | | | 599,880 | | | | 708,279 | |
Redemptions | | | (9,305,182 | ) | | | (6,347,414 | ) |
Exchange from Class B shares | | | 14,279 | | | | 81,966 | |
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Net decrease | | | (5,491,194 | ) | | | (3,103,538 | ) |
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Class B | | 2017 | | | 2016 | |
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Sales | | | 13,504 | | | | 21,488 | |
Issued to shareholders electing to receive payments of distributions in Fund shares | | | 940 | | | | 1,788 | |
Redemptions | | | (27,064 | ) | | | (18,958 | ) |
Exchange to Class A shares | | | (14,270 | ) | | | (81,924 | ) |
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Net decrease | | | (26,890 | ) | | | (77,606 | ) |
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National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements — continued
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Class C | | 2017 | | | 2016 | |
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Sales | | | 944,798 | | | | 1,471,271 | |
Issued to shareholders electing to receive payments of distributions in Fund shares | | | 179,275 | | | | 202,778 | |
Redemptions | | | (2,793,436 | ) | | | (2,194,099 | ) |
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Net decrease | | | (1,669,363 | ) | | | (520,050 | ) |
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Class I | | 2017 | | | 2016 | |
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Sales | | | 15,654,303 | | | | 12,414,596 | |
Issued to shareholders electing to receive payments of distributions in Fund shares | | | 265,839 | | | | 229,309 | |
Redemptions | | | (16,093,528 | ) | | | (6,928,695 | ) |
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Net increase (decrease) | | | (173,386 | ) | | | 5,715,210 | |
8 Line of Credit
The Fund participates with other portfolios and funds managed by EVM and its affiliates in a $625 million unsecured line of credit agreement with a group of banks, which is in effect through September 1, 2017. Borrowings are made by the Fund solely to facilitate the handling of unusual and/or unanticipated short-term cash requirements. Interest is charged to the Fund based on its borrowings at an amount above either the Eurodollar rate or Federal Funds rate. In addition, a fee computed at an annual rate of 0.15% on the daily unused portion of the line of credit is allocated among the participating portfolios and funds at the end of each quarter. Because the line of credit is not available exclusively to the Fund, it may be unable to borrow some or all of its requested amounts at any particular time. At March 31, 2017, the Fund had a balance outstanding pursuant to this line of credit of $500,000 at an interest rate of 1.91%. Based on the short-term nature of the borrowings under the line of credit and variable interest rate, the carrying value of the borrowings approximated its fair value at March 31, 2017. If measured at fair value, borrowings under the line of credit would have been considered as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy (see Note 9) at March 31, 2017. The Fund did not have any significant borrowings or allocated fees during the year ended March 31, 2017.
9 Fair Value Measurements
Under generally accepted accounting principles for fair value measurements, a three-tier hierarchy to prioritize the assumptions, referred to as inputs, is used in valuation techniques to measure fair value. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized in the three broad levels listed below.
• | | Level 1 – quoted prices in active markets for identical investments |
• | | Level 2 – other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.) |
• | | Level 3 – significant unobservable inputs (including a fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments) |
In cases where the inputs used to measure fair value fall in different levels of the fair value hierarchy, the level disclosed is determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
At March 31, 2017, the hierarchy of inputs used in valuing the Fund’s investments, which are carried at value, were as follows:
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Asset Description | | Level 1 | | | Level 2 | | | Level 3 | | | Total | |
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Tax-Exempt Municipal Securities | | $ | — | | | $ | 586,643,047 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 586,643,047 | |
Taxable Municipal Securities | | | — | | | | 3,860,686 | | | | — | | | | 3,860,686 | |
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Total Investments | | $ | — | | | $ | 590,503,733 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 590,503,733 | |
The Fund held no investments or other financial instruments as of March 31, 2016 whose fair value was determined using Level 3 inputs. At March 31, 2017, there were no investments transferred between Level 1 and Level 2 during the year then ended.
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Trustees of Eaton Vance Investment Trust and Shareholders of Eaton Vance National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund:
We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of Eaton Vance National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund (the “Fund”) (one of the funds constituting Eaton Vance Investment Trust), including the portfolio of investments, as of March 31, 2017, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. The Fund is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Fund’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of March 31, 2017, by correspondence with the custodian and brokers; where replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, such financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Eaton Vance National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund as of March 31, 2017, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
Boston, Massachusetts
May 19, 2017
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Federal Tax Information (Unaudited)
The Form 1099-DIV you receive in February 2018 will show the tax status of all distributions paid to your account in calendar year 2017. Shareholders are advised to consult their own tax adviser with respect to the tax consequences of their investment in the Fund. As required by the Internal Revenue Code and/or regulations, shareholders must be notified regarding exempt-interest dividends.
Exempt-Interest Dividends. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017, the Fund designates 98.95% of distributions from net investment income as an exempt-interest dividend.
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Management and Organization
Fund Management. The Trustees of Eaton Vance Investment Trust (the Trust) are responsible for the overall management and supervision of the Trust’s affairs. The Trustees and officers of the Trust are listed below. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the last five years. Trustees and officers of the Trust hold indefinite terms of office. The “Noninterested Trustees” consist of those Trustees who are not “interested persons” of the Trust, as that term is defined under the 1940 Act. The business address of each Trustee and officer is Two International Place, Boston, Massachusetts 02110. As used below, “EVC” refers to Eaton Vance Corp., “EV” refers to Eaton Vance, Inc., “EVM” refers to Eaton Vance Management, “BMR” refers to Boston Management and Research, “EVMI” refers to Eaton Vance Management (International) Limited and “EVD” refers to Eaton Vance Distributors, Inc. EVC and EV are the corporate parent and trustee, respectively, of EVM and BMR. EVMI is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of EVC. EVD is the Fund’s principal underwriter and a wholly-owned subsidiary of EVC. Each officer affiliated with Eaton Vance may hold a position with other Eaton Vance affiliates that is comparable to his or her position with EVM listed below. Each Trustee oversees 177 portfolios in the Eaton Vance Complex (including all master and feeder funds in a master feeder structure). Each officer serves as an officer of certain other Eaton Vance funds. Each Trustee and officer serves until his or her successor is elected.
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Name and Year of Birth | | Position(s) with the Trust | | Trustee Since(1) | | Principal Occupation(s) and Directorships During Past Five Years and Other Relevant Experience |
Interested Trustee |
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Thomas E. Faust Jr. 1958 | | Trustee | | 2007 | | Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of EVC, Director and President of EV, Chief Executive Officer and President of EVM and BMR, and Director of EVD and EVMI. Trustee and/or officer of 177 registered investment companies. Mr. Faust is an interested person because of his positions with EVM, BMR, EVD, EVMI, EVC and EV, which are affiliates of the Trust. Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) Director of EVC and Hexavest Inc. (investment management firm). |
Noninterested Trustees |
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Scott E. Eston 1956 | | Trustee | | 2011 | | Private investor. Formerly held various positions at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo and Co., LLC (investment management firm) (1997-2009), including Chief Operating Officer (2002-2009), Chief Financial Officer (1997-2009) and Chairman of the Executive Committee (2002-2008); President and Principal Executive Officer, GMO Trust (open-end registered investment company) (2006-2009). Former Partner, Coopers and Lybrand LLP (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) (a registered public accounting firm) (1987-1997). Mr. Eston has apprised the Board of Trustees that he intends to retire as a Trustee of all Eaton Vance funds effective September 30, 2017. Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) None. |
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Mark R. Fetting(3) 1954 | | Trustee | | 2016 | | Private investor. Formerly held various positions at Legg Mason, Inc. (investment management firm) (2000-2012), including President, Chief Executive Officer, Director and Chairman (2008-2012), Senior Executive Vice President (2004-2008) and Executive Vice President (2001-2004). Formerly, President of Legg Mason family of funds (2001-2008). Formerly, Division President and Senior Officer of Prudential Financial Group, Inc. and related companies (investment management firm) (1991-2000). Directorships in the Last Five Years. Formerly, Director and Chairman of Legg Mason, Inc. (2008-2012); Director/Trustee and Chairman of Legg Mason family of funds (14 funds) (2008-2012); and Director/Trustee of the Royce family of funds (35 funds) (2001-2012). |
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Cynthia E. Frost 1961 | | Trustee | | 2014 | | Private investor. Formerly, Chief Investment Officer of Brown University (university endowment) (2000-2012); Portfolio Strategist for Duke Management Company (university endowment manager) (1995-2000); Managing Director, Cambridge Associates (investment consulting company) (1989-1995); Consultant, Bain and Company (management consulting firm) (1987-1989); Senior Equity Analyst, BA Investment Management Company (1983-1985). Directorships in the Last Five Years. None. |
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George J. Gorman 1952 | | Trustee | | 2014 | | Principal at George J. Gorman LLC (consulting firm). Formerly, Senior Partner at Ernst & Young LLP (a registered public accounting firm) (1974-2009). Directorships in the Last Five Years. Formerly, Trustee of the BofA Funds Series Trust (11 funds) (2011-2014) and of the Ashore Funds (9 funds) (2010-2014). |
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Management and Organization — continued
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Name and Year of Birth | | Position(s) with the Trust | | Trustee Since(1) | | Principal Occupation(s) and Directorships During Past Five Years and Other Relevant Experience |
Noninterested Trustees (continued) |
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Valerie A. Mosley 1960 | | Trustee | | 2014 | | Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of Valdo Ventures (a consulting and investment firm). Former Partner and Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Investment Strategist at Wellington Management Company, LLP (investment management firm) (1992-2012). Former Chief Investment Officer, PG Corbin Asset Management (1990-1992). Formerly worked in institutional corporate bond sales at Kidder Peabody (1986-1990). Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) Director of Dyne Capital, Inc. (mortgage REIT) (since 2013). |
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William H. Park 1947 | | Chairperson of the Board and Trustee | | 2016 (Chairperson) 2003 (Trustee) | | Private investor. Formerly, Consultant (management and transactional) (2012-2014). Formerly, Chief Financial Officer, Avon Group L.P. (investment management firm) (2010-2011). Formerly, Vice Chairman, Commercial Industrial Finance Corp. (specialty finance company) (2006-2010). Formerly, President and Chief Executive Officer, Prizm Capital Management, LLC (investment management firm) (2002-2005). Formerly, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, United Asset Management Corporation (investment management firm) (1982-2001). Formerly, Senior Manager, Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) (a registered public accounting firm) (1972-1981). Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) None. |
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Helen Frame Peters 1948 | | Trustee | | 2008 | | Professor of Finance, Carroll School of Management, Boston College. Formerly, Dean, Carroll School of Management, Boston College (2000-2002). Formerly, Chief Investment Officer, Fixed Income, Scudder Kemper Investments (investment management firm) (1998-1999). Formerly, Chief Investment Officer, Equity and Fixed Income, Colonial Management Associates (investment management firm) (1991-1998). Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) Formerly, Director of BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc. (wholesale club retailer) (2004-2011). Formerly, Trustee of SPDR Index Shares Funds and SPDR Series Trust (exchange traded funds) (2000-2009). Formerly, Director of Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston (a bank for banks) (2007-2009). |
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Susan J. Sutherland 1957 | | Trustee | | 2015 | | Private investor. Formerly, Associate, Counsel and Partner at Sadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (law firm) (1982-2013). Directorships in the Last Five Years. Formerly, Director of Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. (global provider of customized insurance and reinsurance products) (2013-2015). |
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Harriett Tee Taggart 1948 | | Trustee | | 2011 | | Managing Director, Taggart Associates (a professional practice firm). Formerly, Partner and Senior Vice President, Wellington Management Company, LLP (investment management firm) (1983-2006). Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) Director of Albemarle Corporation (chemicals manufacturer) (since 2007) and The Hanover Group (specialty property and casualty insurance company) (since 2009). Formerly, Director of Lubrizol Corporation (specialty chemicals) (2007-2011). |
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Ralph F. Verni 1943 | | Trustee | | 2005 | | Consultant and private investor. Formerly, Chief Investment Officer (1982-1992), Chief Financial Officer (1988-1990) and Director (1982-1992), New England Life. Formerly, Chairperson, New England Mutual Funds (1982-1992). Formerly, President and Chief Executive Officer, State Street Management & Research (1992-2000). Formerly, Chairperson, State Street Research Mutual Funds (1992-2000). Formerly, Director, W.P. Carey, LLC (1998-2004) and First Pioneer Farm Credit Corp. (financial services cooperative) (2002-2006). Consistent with the Trustee retirement policy, Mr. Verni is currently expected to retire as a Trustee of all Eaton Vance funds effective July 1, 2017. Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) None. |
Eaton Vance
National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
March 31, 2017
Management and Organization — continued
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Name and Year of Birth | | Position(s) with the Trust | | Trustee Since(1) | | Principal Occupation(s) and Directorships During Past Five Years and Other Relevant Experience |
Noninterested Trustees (continued) |
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Scott E. Wennerholm(3) 1959 | | Trustee | | 2016 | | Consultant at GF Parish Group (executive recruiting firm). Trustee at Wheelock College (postsecondary institution) (since 2012). Formerly, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President at BNY Mellon Asset Management (investment management firm) (2005-2011). Formerly, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Natixis Global Asset Management (investment management firm) (1997-2004). Formerly, Vice President at Fidelity Investments Institutional Services (investment management firm) (1994-1997). Directorships in the Last Five Years. None. |
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Principal Officers who are not Trustees |
Name and Year of Birth | | Position(s) with the Trust | | Officer Since(4) | | Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years |
Payson F. Swaffield 1956 | | President | | 2003 | | Vice President and Chief Income Investment Officer of EVM and BMR. |
Maureen A. Gemma 1960 | | Vice President, Secretary and Chief Legal Officer | | 2005 | | Vice President of EVM and BMR. Also Vice President of Calvert Research and Management (“CRM”). |
James F. Kirchner 1967 | | Treasurer | | 2007 | | Vice President of EVM and BMR. Also Vice President of CRM. |
Paul M. O’Neil 1953 | | Chief Compliance Officer | | 2004 | | Vice President of EVM and BMR. |
(1) | Year first appointed to serve as Trustee for a fund in the Eaton Vance family of funds. Each Trustee has served continuously since appointment unless indicated otherwise. |
(2) | During their respective tenures, the Trustees (except for Mmes. Frost and Sutherland and Messrs. Fetting, Gorman and Wennerholm) also served as Board members of one or more of the following funds (which operated in the years noted): eUnitsTM 2 Year U.S. Market Participation Trust: Upside to Cap / Buffered Downside (launched in 2012 and terminated in 2014); eUnitsTM 2 Year U.S. Market Participation Trust II: Upside to Cap / Buffered Downside (launched in 2012 and terminated in 2014); and Eaton Vance National Municipal Income Trust (launched in 1998 and terminated in 2009). However, Ms. Mosley did not serve as a Board member of eUnitsTM 2 Year U.S. Market Participation Trust: Upside to Cap / Buffered Downside (launched in 2012 and terminated in 2014). |
(3) | Messrs. Fetting and Wennerholm began serving as Trustees effective September 1, 2016. |
(4) | Year first elected to serve as officer of a fund in the Eaton Vance family of funds when the officer has served continuously. Otherwise, year of most recent election as an officer of a fund in the Eaton Vance family of funds. Titles may have changed since initial election. |
The SAI for the Fund includes additional information about the Trustees and officers of the Fund and can be obtained without charge on Eaton Vance’s website at www.eatonvance.com or by calling 1-800-262-1122.
Eaton Vance Funds
IMPORTANT NOTICES
Privacy. The Eaton Vance organization is committed to ensuring your financial privacy. Each of the financial institutions identified below has in effect the following policy (“Privacy Policy”) with respect to nonpublic personal information about its customers:
• | | Only such information received from you, through application forms or otherwise, and information about your Eaton Vance fund transactions will be collected. This may include information such as name, address, social security number, tax status, account balances and transactions. |
• | | None of such information about you (or former customers) will be disclosed to anyone, except as permitted by law (which includes disclosure to employees necessary to service your account). In the normal course of servicing a customer’s account, Eaton Vance may share information with unaffiliated third parties that perform various required services such as transfer agents, custodians and broker-dealers. |
• | | Policies and procedures (including physical, electronic and procedural safeguards) are in place that are designed to protect the confidentiality of such information. |
• | | We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy at any time upon proper notification to you. Customers may want to review our Privacy Policy periodically for changes by accessing the link on our homepage: www.eatonvance.com. |
Our pledge of privacy applies to the following entities within the Eaton Vance organization: the Eaton Vance Family of Funds, Eaton Vance Management, Eaton Vance Investment Counsel, Eaton Vance Distributors, Inc., Eaton Vance Trust Company, Eaton Vance Management (International) Limited, Eaton Vance Management’s Real Estate Investment Group and Boston Management and Research. In addition, our Privacy Policy applies only to those Eaton Vance customers who are individuals and who have a direct relationship with us. If a customer’s account (i.e., fund shares) is held in the name of a third-party financial advisor/broker-dealer, it is likely that only such advisor’s privacy policies apply to the customer. This notice supersedes all previously issued privacy disclosures. For more information about Eaton Vance’s Privacy Policy, please call 1-800-262-1122.
Delivery of Shareholder Documents. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) permits funds to deliver only one copy of shareholder documents, including prospectuses, proxy statements and shareholder reports, to fund investors with multiple accounts at the same residential or post office box address. This practice is often called “householding” and it helps eliminate duplicate mailings to shareholders. Eaton Vance, or your financial advisor, may household the mailing of your documents indefinitely unless you instruct Eaton Vance, or your financial advisor, otherwise. If you would prefer that your Eaton Vance documents not be householded, please contact Eaton Vance at 1-800-262-1122, or contact your financial advisor. Your instructions that householding not apply to delivery of your Eaton Vance documents will typically be effective within 30 days of receipt by Eaton Vance or your financial advisor. Separate statements will be generated for each separate account and will be householded as described above.
Portfolio Holdings. Each Eaton Vance Fund and its underlying Portfolio(s) (if applicable) will file a schedule of portfolio holdings on Form N-Q with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year. The Form N-Q will be available on the Eaton Vance website at www.eatonvance.com, by calling Eaton Vance at 1-800-262-1122 or in the EDGAR database on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Form N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s public reference room in Washington, D.C. (call 1-800-732-0330 for information on the operation of the public reference room).
Proxy Voting. From time to time, funds are required to vote proxies related to the securities held by the funds. The Eaton Vance Funds or their underlying Portfolios (if applicable) vote proxies according to a set of policies and procedures approved by the Funds’ and Portfolios’ Boards. You may obtain a description of these policies and procedures and information on how the Funds or Portfolios voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30, without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-262-1122 and by accessing the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
Investment Adviser
Boston Management and Research
Two International Place
Boston, MA 02110
Administrator
Eaton Vance Management
Two International Place
Boston, MA 02110
Principal Underwriter*
Eaton Vance Distributors, Inc.
Two International Place
Boston, MA 02110
(617) 482-8260
Custodian
State Street Bank and Trust Company
State Street Financial Center, One Lincoln Street
Boston, MA 02111
Transfer Agent
BNY Mellon Investment Servicing (US) Inc.
Attn: Eaton Vance Funds
P.O. Box 9653
Providence, RI 02940-9653
(800) 262-1122
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Deloitte & Touche LLP
200 Berkeley Street Boston, MA 02116-5022
Fund Offices
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Eaton Vance
New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
Annual Report
March 31, 2017
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission Registration. Effective December 31, 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) adopted certain regulatory changes that subject registered investment companies and advisers to regulation by the CFTC if a fund invests more than a prescribed level of its assets in certain CFTC-regulated instruments (including futures, certain options and swap agreements) or markets itself as providing investment exposure to such instruments. The Fund has claimed an exclusion from the definition of the term “commodity pool operator” under the Commodity Exchange Act. Accordingly, neither the Fund nor the adviser with respect to the operation of the Fund is subject to CFTC regulation. Because of its management of other strategies, the Fund’s adviser is registered with the CFTC as a commodity pool operator and a commodity trading advisor.
Fund shares are not insured by the FDIC and are not deposits or other obligations of, or guaranteed by, any depository institution. Shares are subject to investment risks, including possible loss of principal invested.
This report must be preceded or accompanied by a current summary prospectus or prospectus. Before investing, investors should consider carefully the investment objective, risks, and charges and expenses of a mutual fund. This and other important information is contained in the summary prospectus and prospectus, which can be obtained from a financial advisor. Prospective investors should read the prospectus carefully before investing. For further information, please call 1-800-262-1122.
Annual Report March 31, 2017
Eaton Vance
New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
Table of Contents
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Management’s Discussion of Fund Performance | | | 2 | |
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Performance | | | 3 | |
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Fund Profile | | | 4 | |
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Endnotes and Additional Disclosures | | | 5 | |
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Fund Expenses | | | 6 | |
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Financial Statements | | | 7 | |
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm | | | 22 | |
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Federal Tax Information | | | 23 | |
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Management and Organization | | | 24 | |
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Important Notices | | | 27 | |
Eaton Vance
New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Management’s Discussion of Fund Performance1
Economic and Market Conditions
As the period opened on April 1, 2016, U.S. Treasurys, along with municipal bonds, were several months into a rally that would continue through nearly the first half of the period. Falling government interest rates around the world, driven by actions such as quantitative easing in Japan and the European Union, put many sovereign rates into negative territory and made U.S. Treasurys and municipal bonds look attractive by comparison.
The United Kingdom’s June 2016 vote to leave the European Union, ongoing Federal Reserve Board (the Fed) caution, and mixed U.S. economic reports continued to fuel the municipal rally in the summer of 2016. Even the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s July 1, 2016 default on over $1 billion in municipal bond and debt service payments — its second default in 2016 and its largest to date — failed to put a dent in the municipal rally, as the market had expected the defaults for some time.
In early fall, however, remarks by the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and the Fed seemed to indicate that rates might begin to rise sooner than markets had anticipated. As a result, municipal rates crept upward in September and October of 2016. In November, Donald Trump’s surprise win in the U.S. presidential election precipitated one of the largest municipal market declines in at least two decades. Rates rose and prices fell as markets anticipated that decreasing regulation and lower tax rates under a Trump administration could lead to higher economic growth and inflation.
Municipal bonds rallied modestly in December 2016, despite a Fed rate hike, making back some of the losses they had suffered the previous month. During January and February 2017, municipal bonds continued to stabilize, with little movement in interest rates. In the final month of the period, rates seesawed as President Trump’s March 1 address to Congress increased confidence in his pro-growth agenda and drove rates up — but the failure of Congress to pass health care reform later in the month cast doubt on the ability to enact that agenda, driving yields back down.
For the 12-month period as a whole, municipal market returns were virtually flat. Coupon yields and price appreciation earlier in the fiscal year were balanced by price declines from September through November 2016, and then a modest price recovery in the final months of the period.
The yield curve for municipal AAA-rated6 issues experienced a “bear flattening.” Rates rose throughout the curve, but the greatest increases occurred in the middle of the curve, causing the curve to flatten.
Across the yield curve, municipal bonds, which had outperformed U.S. Treasurys from the beginning of the period until the election, performed approximately even with U.S. Treasurys for the period as a whole.
Fund Performance
For the 12-month period ended March 31, 2017, Eaton Vance New York Municipal Opportunities Fund (the Fund) had a total return of -0.55% for Class A shares at net asset value (NAV), underperforming the 0.15% return of the Fund’s primary benchmark, the Bloomberg Barclays Municipal Bond Index (the Index).2
Effective April 25, 2016, the name of the Fund was changed from Eaton Vance New York Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund to Eaton Vance New York Municipal Opportunities Fund, and the Fund’s investment objective, principal strategies and benchmark index were changed. In seeking to achieve its primary objective of maximizing after-tax total return, the Fund now employs a flexible investment strategy that allows it to seek opportunities, principally in the New York municipal bond market, virtually anywhere on the yield curve, anywhere on the credit curve and across different sectors. Management has the ability to be opportunistic in pursuing the Fund’s after-tax total return objective, trading holdings whenever opportunities arise, with the ability to invest up to 20% of net assets in debt obligations other than tax-exempt municipal bonds, including (but not limited to) taxable municipal obligations, U.S. Treasury securities and obligations of the U.S. Government, its agencies and instrumentalities. Up to 50% of the Fund’s net assets may be invested in below-investment-grade securities. The Fund may also hedge interest rate risk and hold leveraged investments.
For the one-year period as a whole, detractors from Fund performance versus the Index included security selection and an overweight, relative to the Index, in the hospital sector; security selection and an overweight in the industrial development revenue sector; and security selection and an overweight in bonds with coupons below 5.00%. In the municipal market, 5.00% coupon bonds are the most commonly held structure. Since lower coupon structures are less common, they trade at various spreads to 5.00% coupon bonds. During the period, spreads on the specific securities selected widened, causing the lower coupon structures to underperform the Index during the period. In contrast, security selection in general obligation bonds aided Fund performance versus the Index during the period, as did security selection in the education sector and security selection in A-rated bonds.
See Endnotes and Additional Disclosures in this report.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value (NAV) or offering price (as applicable) with all distributions reinvested. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance less than or equal to one year is cumulative. Performance is for the stated time period only; due to market volatility, the Fund’s current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. Returns are before taxes unless otherwise noted. For performance as of the most recent month-end, please refer to eatonvance.com.
Eaton Vance
New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Performance2,3
Portfolio Managers Adam A. Weigold, CFA and Craig R. Brandon, CFA
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% Average Annual Total Returns | | Class Inception Date | | | Performance Inception Date | | | One Year | | | Five Years | | | Ten Years | |
Class A at NAV | | | 06/27/1996 | | | | 05/29/1992 | | | | –0.55 | % | | | 1.75 | % | | | 2.50 | % |
Class A with 2.25% Maximum Sales Charge | | | — | | | | — | | | | –2.76 | | | | 1.28 | | | | 2.27 | |
Class C at NAV | | | 12/08/1993 | | | | 05/29/1992 | | | | –1.24 | | | | 0.99 | | | | 1.74 | |
Class C with 1% Maximum Sales Charge | | | — | | | | — | | | | –2.21 | | | | 0.99 | | | | 1.74 | |
Class I at NAV | | | 08/03/2010 | | | | 05/29/1992 | | | | –0.40 | | | | 1.90 | | | | 2.59 | |
Bloomberg Barclays Municipal Bond Index | | | — | | | | — | | | | 0.15 | % | | | 3.24 | % | | | 4.32 | % |
Bloomberg Barclays 7 Year Municipal Bond Index | | | — | | | | — | | | | –0.06 | | | | 2.72 | | | | 4.47 | |
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% Total Annual Operating Expense Ratios4 | | | | | | | | Class A | | | Class C | | | Class I | |
| | | | | | | | | | | 0.75 | % | | | 1.50 | % | | | 0.60 | % |
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% Distribution Rates/Yields5 | | | | | | | | Class A | | | Class C | | | Class I | |
Distribution Rate | | | | | | | | | | | 2.63 | % | | | 1.90 | % | | | 2.79 | % |
Taxable-Equivalent Distribution Rate | | | | | | | | | | | 5.10 | | | | 3.68 | | | | 5.41 | |
SEC 30-day Yield | | | | | | | | | | | 1.50 | | | | 0.83 | | | | 1.70 | |
Taxable-Equivalent SEC 30-day Yield | | | | | | | | | | | 2.91 | | | | 1.60 | | | | 3.29 | |
Growth of $10,000
This graph shows the change in value of a hypothetical investment of $10,000 in Class A of the Fund for the period indicated. For comparison, the same investment is shown in the indicated index.
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Growth of Investment3 | | Amount Invested | | | Period Beginning | | | At NAV | | | With Maximum Sales Charge | |
Class C | | $ | 10,000 | | | | 03/31/2007 | | | $ | 11,882 | | | | N.A. | |
Class I | | $ | 250,000 | | | | 03/31/2007 | | | $ | 323,055 | | | | N.A. | |
See Endnotes and Additional Disclosures in this report.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value (NAV) or offering price (as applicable) with all distributions reinvested. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance less than or equal to one year is cumulative. Performance is for the stated time period only; due to market volatility, the Fund’s current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. Returns are before taxes unless otherwise noted. For performance as of the most recent month-end, please refer to eatonvance.com.
Eaton Vance
New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Fund Profile
Credit Quality (% of total investments)6
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See Endnotes and Additional Disclosures in this report.
Eaton Vance
New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Endnotes and Additional Disclosures
1 | The views expressed in this report are those of the portfolio manager(s) and are current only through the date stated at the top of this page. These views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions, and Eaton Vance and the Fund(s) disclaim any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied upon as investment advice and, because investment decisions are based on many factors, may not be relied upon as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Eaton Vance fund. This commentary may contain statements that are not historical facts, referred to as “forward looking statements”. The Fund’s actual future results may differ significantly from those stated in any forward looking statement, depending on factors such as changes in securities or financial markets or general economic conditions, the volume of sales and purchases of Fund shares, the continuation of investment advisory, administrative and service contracts, and other risks discussed from time to time in the Fund’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
2 | Bloomberg Barclays Municipal Bond Index is an unmanaged index of municipal bonds traded in the U.S. Bloomberg Barclays 7 Year Municipal Bond Index is an unmanaged index of municipal bonds traded in the U.S. with maturities ranging from 6-8 years. Unless otherwise stated, index returns do not reflect the effect of any applicable sales charges, commissions, expenses, taxes or leverage, as applicable. It is not possible to invest directly in an index. |
3 | Total Returns at NAV do not include applicable sales charges. If sales charges were deducted, the returns would be lower. Total Returns shown with maximum sales charge reflect the stated maximum sales charge. Unless otherwise stated, performance does not reflect the deduction of taxes on Fund distributions or redemptions of Fund shares. |
| Performance prior to the inception date of a class may be linked to the performance of an older class of the Fund. This linked performance is adjusted for any applicable sales charge, but is not adjusted for class expense differences. If adjusted for such differences, the performance would be different. The performance of Class I is linked to Class A. Performance since inception for an index, if presented, is the performance since the Fund’s or oldest share class’ inception, as applicable. Performance presented in the Financial Highlights included in the financial statements is not linked. |
| Effective April 25, 2016, the Fund changed its name, investment objective and investment strategy to seek to maximize after-tax total return. Effective April 25, 2016, the Fund changed its primary benchmark to the Bloomberg Barclays Municipal Bond Index because the investment adviser believes it is a more appropriate benchmark for the Fund. Performance prior to April 25, 2016 reflects the Fund’s performance under its former investment objective and policies. |
4 | Source: Fund prospectus. The expense ratios for the current reporting period can be found in the Financial Highlights section of this report. |
5 | The Distribution Rate is based on the Fund’s last regular distribution per share in the period (annualized) divided by the Fund’s NAV at the end of the period. The Fund’s distributions may be comprised of amounts characterized for federal income tax purposes as tax- exempt income, qualified and non-qualified ordinary dividends, capital gains and nondividend distributions, also known as return of capital. The Fund will determine the federal income tax character of distributions paid to a shareholder after the end of the calendar year. This is reported on the IRS form 1099-DIV and provided to the shareholder shortly after each year-end. The Fund’s distributions are determined by the investment adviser based on its current assessment of the Fund’s long-term return potential. As portfolio and market conditions change, the rate of distributions paid by the Fund could change. Taxable-equivalent performance is based on the highest combined federal and state income tax rates, where applicable. Lower tax rates would result in lower tax-equivalent performance. Actual tax rates will vary depending on your income, exemptions and deductions. Rates do not include local taxes. SEC Yield is a standardized measure based on the estimated yield to maturity of a fund’s investments over a 30-day period and is based on the maximum offer price at the date specified. The SEC Yield is not based on the distributions made by the Fund, which may differ. |
6 | Ratings are based on Moody’s, S&P or Fitch, as applicable. If securities are rated differently by the ratings agencies, the higher rating is applied. Ratings, which are subject to change, apply to the creditworthiness of the issuers of the underlying securities and not to the Fund or its shares. Credit ratings measure the quality of a bond based on the issuer’s creditworthiness, with ratings ranging from AAA, being the highest, to D, being the lowest based on S&P’s measures. Ratings of BBB or higher by S&P or Fitch (Baa or higher by Moody’s) are considered to be investment-grade quality. Credit ratings are based largely on the ratings agency’s analysis at the time of rating. The rating assigned to any particular security is not necessarily a reflection of the issuer’s current financial condition and does not necessarily reflect its assessment of the volatility of a security’s market value or of the liquidity of an investment in the security. Holdings designated as “Not Rated” are not rated by the national ratings agencies stated above. |
| Fund profile subject to change due to active management. |
Eaton Vance
New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Fund Expenses
Example: As a Fund shareholder, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on purchases and redemption fees (if applicable); and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees; distribution and/or service fees; and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of Fund investing and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds. The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (October 1, 2016 – March 31, 2017).
Actual Expenses: The first section of the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this section, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first section under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes: The second section of the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the actual Fund expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year (before expenses), which is not the actual Fund return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in your Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs, such as sales charges (loads) or redemption fees (if applicable). Therefore, the second section of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would be higher.
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| | Beginning Account Value (10/1/16) | | | Ending Account Value (3/31/17) | | | Expenses Paid During Period* (10/1/16 – 3/31/17) | | | Annualized Expense Ratio | |
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Class A | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 976.80 | | | $ | 3.55 | | | | 0.72 | % |
Class C | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 973.40 | | | $ | 7.23 | | | | 1.47 | % |
Class I | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 977.50 | | | $ | 2.81 | | | | 0.57 | % |
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Class A | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 1,021.30 | | | $ | 3.63 | | | | 0.72 | % |
Class C | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 1,017.60 | | | $ | 7.39 | | | �� | 1.47 | % |
Class I | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 1,022.10 | | | $ | 2.87 | | | | 0.57 | % |
* | Expenses are equal to the Fund’s annualized expense ratio for the indicated Class, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 182/365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The Example assumes that the $1,000 was invested at the net asset value per share determined at the close of business on September 30, 2016. |
Eaton Vance
New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Portfolio of Investments
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Tax-Exempt Municipal Securities — 92.9% | |
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Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
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Bond Bank — 1.5% | |
New York Environmental Facilities Corp., 4.00%, 8/15/32 | | $ | 1,250 | | | $ | 1,348,250 | |
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| | | | | | $ | 1,348,250 | |
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Cogeneration — 0.5% | |
Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency, (Nissequogue Cogeneration Partners Facility), (AMT), 5.50%, 1/1/23 | | $ | 420 | | | $ | 419,966 | |
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Education — 8.0% | |
Dutchess County Local Development Corp., (Culinary Institute of America), 5.00%, 7/1/26 | | $ | 300 | | | $ | 348,408 | |
Dutchess County Local Development Corp., (Culinary Institute of America), 5.00%, 7/1/27 | | | 330 | | | | 380,794 | |
Dutchess County Local Development Corp., (Culinary Institute of America), 5.00%, 7/1/28 | | | 200 | | | | 229,050 | |
Monroe County Industrial Development Corp., (St. John Fisher College), 5.00%, 6/1/21 | | | 930 | | | | 1,032,774 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (Culinary Institute of America), 5.00%, 7/1/23 | | | 250 | | | | 282,707 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (Hamilton College), 5.00%, 7/1/21 | | | 455 | | | | 521,130 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (New York University), 5.00%, 7/1/37 | | | 695 | | | | 785,482 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (Pace University), 4.00%, 5/1/22 | | | 500 | | | | 529,325 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (Pratt Institute), 5.00%, 7/1/39 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,122,650 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (State University Educational Facilities), Prerefunded to 7/1/18, 5.00%, 7/1/20 | | | 1,500 | | | | 1,575,480 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (The New School), 5.00%, 7/1/26 | | | 500 | | | | 589,305 | |
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Electric Utilities — 1.3% | |
Utility Debt Securitization Authority, 5.00%, 6/15/26 | | $ | 1,000 | | | $ | 1,188,310 | |
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Escrowed / Prerefunded — 6.7% | |
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Prerefunded to 11/15/17, 5.00%, 11/15/21 | | $ | 1,000 | | | $ | 1,026,420 | |
New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority, (Water and Sewer System), Prerefunded to 6/15/18, 5.00%, 6/15/21 | | | 450 | | | | 472,163 | |
New York City Trust for Cultural Resources, (Museum of Modern Art), Prerefunded to 10/1/18, 5.00%, 4/1/26 | | | 2,030 | | | | 2,152,632 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (NYU Hospital Center), Prerefunded to 7/1/17, 5.25%, 7/1/24 | | | 255 | | | | 257,922 | |
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Onondaga Civic Development Corp., (St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center), Escrowed to Maturity, 5.00%, 7/1/17 | | $ | 750 | | | $ | 758,047 | |
Saratoga County Industrial Development Agency, (Saratoga Hospital), Escrowed to Maturity, 5.00%, 12/1/17 | | | 245 | | | | 251,875 | |
Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, Escrowed to Maturity, 5.00%, 1/1/20 | | | 1,170 | | | | 1,250,344 | |
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General Obligations — 4.3% | |
Haverstraw-Stony Point Central School District, 4.50%, 5/1/26 | | $ | 1,010 | | | $ | 1,119,262 | |
Livingston County, 4.50%, 5/1/23 | | | 500 | | | | 564,355 | |
New York, 5.00%, 3/1/24 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,201,220 | |
New York City, 5.00%, 8/1/24 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,119,480 | |
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Hospital — 11.7% | |
Illinois Finance Authority, (Presence Health Network), 3.75%, 2/15/34 | | $ | 3,450 | | | $ | 3,019,613 | |
Monroe County Industrial Development Corp., (Rochester General Hospital), 4.00%, 12/1/22 | | | 820 | | | | 895,120 | |
Nassau County Local Economic Assistance and Financing Corp., (Catholic Health Services of Long Island), 5.00%, 7/1/22 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,114,070 | |
Nassau County Local Economic Assistance Corp., (Catholic Health Services of Long Island), 5.00%, 7/1/23 | | | 500 | | | | 571,595 | |
New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., 5.50%, 2/15/19 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,039,350 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (North Shore-Long Island Jewish Obligated Group), 1.42%, 5/1/18(1) | | | 500 | | | | 500,745 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (NYU Hospital Center), 5.00%, 7/1/20 | | | 740 | | | | 819,602 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (NYU Hospital Center), 5.00%, 7/1/25 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,187,770 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (Orange Regional Medical Center), 5.00%, 12/1/23(2) | | | 400 | | | | 447,268 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (Orange Regional Medical Center), 5.00%, 12/1/24(2) | | | 600 | | | | 672,012 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (Orange Regional Medical Center), 5.00%, 12/1/25(2) | | | 500 | | | | 561,085 | |
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| | | | | | $ | 10,828,230 | |
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Housing — 2.0% | |
Albany Capital Resource Corp., (Empire Commons Student Housing, Inc.), 5.00%, 5/1/25 | | $ | 300 | | | $ | 354,990 | |
Albany Capital Resource Corp., (Empire Commons Student Housing, Inc.), 5.00%, 5/1/26 | | | 300 | | | | 356,052 | |
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| | 7 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Portfolio of Investments — continued
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Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
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Housing (continued) | |
Albany Capital Resource Corp., (Empire Commons Student Housing, Inc.), 5.00%, 5/1/28 | | $ | 135 | | | $ | 157,182 | |
New York Housing Finance Agency, (Affordable Housing), (AMT), 5.05%, 11/1/22 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,018,440 | |
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Industrial Development Revenue — 3.1% | |
New York Energy Research and Development Authority, (New York Electric and Gas Corp.), 2.00% to 5/1/20 (Put Date), 6/1/29 | | $ | 1,000 | | | $ | 996,240 | |
New York Environmental Facilities Corp., (Casella Waste Systems, Inc.), (AMT), 3.125% to 6/1/26 (Put Date), 12/1/44(2) | | | 1,000 | | | | 835,740 | |
New York Environmental Facilities Corp., (Casella Waste Systems, Inc.), (AMT), 3.75% to 12/2/19 (Put Date), 12/1/44(2) | | | 500 | | | | 492,035 | |
Niagara Area Development Corp., (Covanta Energy), 4.00%, 11/1/24(2) | | | 550 | | | | 551,513 | |
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| | | | | | $ | 2,875,528 | |
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Insured – Education — 5.9% | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (Educational Housing Services), (AMBAC), 5.25%, 7/1/20 | | $ | 1,420 | | | $ | 1,586,339 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (Rochester Institute of Technology), (AMBAC), 5.25%, 7/1/21 | | | 1,085 | | | | 1,236,509 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (St. John’s University), (NPFG), 5.25%, 7/1/21 | | | 1,455 | | | | 1,679,463 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (State University Educational Facilities), (AGM), 5.75%, 5/15/17 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,006,130 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 5,508,441 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Insured – Electric Utilities — 2.3% | |
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, (NPFG), 5.25%, 7/1/29 | | $ | 2,050 | | | $ | 2,169,638 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 2,169,638 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Insured – Escrowed / Prerefunded — 1.3% | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (Master BOCES Program-Oneida Herkimer Madison), (AGM), Prerefunded to 8/15/18, 5.25%, 8/15/20 | | $ | 1,000 | | | $ | 1,059,010 | |
Niagara County Industrial Development Agency, (Niagara University), (AMBAC), Escrowed to Maturity, 5.25%, 10/1/18 | | | 105 | | | | 108,997 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 1,168,007 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | |
Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Insured – General Obligations — 2.8% | |
Albany City School District, (BAM), 5.00%, 6/15/23 | | $ | 100 | | | $ | 117,465 | |
Monroe County Industrial Development Corp., (Monroe Community College Association, Inc.), (AGM), 5.00%, 1/15/21 | | | 730 | | | | 811,899 | |
Mount Vernon School District, (AGM), 4.50%, 8/15/23 | | | 500 | | | | 568,085 | |
Mount Vernon School District, (AGM), 5.00%, 8/15/24 | | | 735 | | | | 847,800 | |
Rockland County, (AGM), 5.00%, 3/1/23 | | | 250 | | | | 286,350 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 2,631,599 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Insured – Hospital — 1.7% | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center), (NPFG), 5.50%, 7/1/17 | | $ | 1,600 | | | $ | 1,618,720 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 1,618,720 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Insured – Special Tax Revenue — 5.1% | |
New York Thruway Authority, Miscellaneous Tax Revenue, (AMBAC), 5.50%, 4/1/20 | | $ | 2,235 | | | $ | 2,514,889 | |
New York Urban Development Corp., Personal Income Tax, (AMBAC), 5.50%, 3/15/19 | | | 2,000 | | | | 2,172,460 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 4,687,349 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Insured – Transportation — 1.2% | |
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, (AMBAC), 5.50%, 11/15/18 | | $ | 1,000 | | | $ | 1,071,930 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 1,071,930 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Lease Revenue / Certificates of Participation — 0.6% | |
New York Urban Development Corp., 5.00%, 1/1/18 | | $ | 500 | | | $ | 515,590 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 515,590 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Other Revenue — 4.9% | |
New York City Transitional Finance Authority, (Building Aid), 5.25%, 1/15/27 | | $ | 1,000 | | | $ | 1,070,620 | |
New York City Transitional Finance Authority, (Building Aid), 6.00%, 7/15/33 | | | 540 | | | | 573,988 | |
New York City Trust for Cultural Resources, (Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation), 5.00%, 7/1/27 | | | 365 | | | | 436,270 | |
New York City Trust for Cultural Resources, (Museum of Modern Art), 4.00%, 2/1/23 | | | 2,200 | | | | 2,475,682 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 4,556,560 | |
| | | | | | | | |
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Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Senior Living / Life Care — 5.5% | |
Brookhaven Local Development Corp., (Jeffersons Ferry), 5.25%, 11/1/25 | | $ | 750 | | | $ | 864,367 | |
Buffalo and Erie County Industrial Land Development Corp., (Orchard Park CCRC, Inc.), 5.00%, 11/15/23 | | | 1,455 | | | | 1,626,486 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (Miriam Osborn Memorial Home Association), 5.00%, 7/1/24 | | | 750 | | | | 792,098 | |
Tompkins County Development Corp., (Kendal at Ithaca, Inc.), 3.25%, 7/1/22 | | | 655 | | | | 666,220 | |
Westchester County Local Development Corp., (Kendal on Hudson), 3.00%, 1/1/20 | | | 625 | | | | 645,363 | |
Westchester County Local Development Corp., (Kendal on Hudson), 4.00%, 1/1/23 | | | 500 | | | | 541,550 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 5,136,084 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Solid Waste — 2.3% | |
Babylon Industrial Development Agency, (Covanta Babylon, Inc.), 5.00%, 1/1/19 | | $ | 2,000 | | | $ | 2,127,580 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 2,127,580 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Special Tax Revenue — 8.5% | |
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Dedicated Tax Revenue, 1.28% to 11/1/18 (Put Date), 11/1/28(1) | | $ | 600 | | | $ | 599,862 | |
New York City Transitional Finance Authority, (Future Tax), Prerefunded to 5/1/19, 5.00%, 5/1/24 | | | 1,900 | | | | 2,051,924 | |
New York Convention Center Development Corp., Hotel Unit Fee, 0.00%, 11/15/26 | | | 385 | | | | 285,766 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, Personal Income Tax Revenue, 5.00%, 2/15/28 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,206,090 | |
New York Urban Development Corp., Personal Income Tax Revenue, 5.00%, 3/15/27 | | | 750 | | | | 916,260 | |
New York Urban Development Corp., Personal Income Tax Revenue, 5.00%, 3/15/28 | | | 1,090 | | | | 1,305,286 | |
Sales Tax Asset Receivables Corp., 5.00%, 10/15/26 | | | 1,250 | | | | 1,504,125 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 7,869,313 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Transportation — 9.5% | |
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 5.00%, 11/15/56 | | $ | 1,685 | | | $ | 1,837,729 | |
New York Transportation Development Corp., (LaGuardia Airport Terminal B Redevelopment), (AMT), 4.00%, 7/1/31 | | | 2,000 | | | | 2,050,560 | |
New York Transportation Development Corp., (Terminal One Group Association, L.P.), (AMT), 5.00%, 1/1/22 | | | 500 | | | | 563,520 | |
Niagara Falls Bridge Commission, 5.00%, 10/1/21 | | | 275 | | | | 314,663 | |
Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, (Buffalo Niagara International Airport), (AMT), 5.00%, 4/1/21 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,117,440 | |
Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, (Buffalo Niagara International Airport), (AMT), 5.00%, 4/1/24 | | | 795 | | | | 909,965 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Transportation (continued) | |
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, (AMT), 5.25%, 9/15/23 | | $ | 1,000 | | | $ | 1,040,040 | |
Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, 1.226% to 2/1/21 (Put Date), 1/1/32(1) | | | 1,000 | | | | 992,460 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 8,826,377 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Water and Sewer — 2.2% | |
Erie County Water Authority, 5.00%, 12/1/18 | | $ | 1,000 | | | $ | 1,067,020 | |
New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority, (Water and Sewer System), 3.00%, 6/15/46 | | | 1,130 | | | | 977,427 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 2,044,447 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
Total Tax-Exempt Municipal Securities — 92.9% (identified cost $84,129,223) | | | $ | 86,049,408 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Taxable Municipal Securities — 4.2% | |
| | |
| | | | | | | | |
Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
|
Other Revenue — 2.0% | |
Brooklyn Arena Local Development Corp., (Barclays Center), 4.391%, 7/15/41 | | $ | 2,000 | | | $ | 1,850,540 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 1,850,540 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Transportation — 2.2% | |
New York Transportation Development Corp., (LaGuardia Airport Terminal B Redevelopment), 3.673%, 7/1/30 | | $ | 1,000 | | | $ | 959,520 | |
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, 4.81%, 10/15/65 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,101,930 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 2,061,450 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
Total Taxable Municipal Securities — 4.2% (identified cost $4,228,313) | | | $ | 3,911,990 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Closed-End Funds — 0.9% | |
| | |
| | | | | | | | |
Security | | Shares | | | Value | |
Nuveen AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund | | | 58,720 | | | $ | 784,499 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
Total Closed-End Funds — 0.9% (identified cost $848,996) | | | $ | 784,499 | |
| | | | | | | | |
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Miscellaneous — 0.4% | |
| | |
| | | | | | | | |
Security | | Units | | | Value | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Real Estate — 0.4% | |
CMS Liquidating Trust(2)(3)(4) | | | 150 | | | $ | 403,842 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
Total Miscellaneous — 0.4% (identified cost $480,000) | | | $ | 403,842 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
Total Investments — 98.4% (identified cost $89,686,532) | | | $ | 91,149,739 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
Other Assets, Less Liabilities — 1.6% | | | $ | 1,465,761 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
Net Assets — 100.0% | | | $ | 92,615,500 | |
| | | | | | | | |
The percentage shown for each investment category in the Portfolio of Investments is based on net assets.
The Fund invests primarily in debt securities issued by New York municipalities. The ability of the issuers of the debt securities to meet their obligations may be affected by economic developments in a specific industry or municipality. In order to reduce the risk associated with such economic developments, at March 31, 2017, 20.7% of total investments are backed by bond insurance of various financial institutions and financial guaranty assurance agencies. The aggregate percentage insured by an individual financial institution or financial guaranty assurance agency ranged from 0.1% to 9.5% of total investments.
(1) | Variable rate security. The stated interest rate represents the rate in effect at March 31, 2017. |
(2) | Security exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. These securities may be sold in certain transactions in reliance on an exemption from registration (normally to qualified institutional buyers). At March 31, 2017, the aggregate value of these securities is $3,963,495 or 4.3% of the Fund’s net assets. |
(3) | Non-income producing security. |
(4) | For fair value measurement disclosure purposes, security is categorized as Level 3 (see Note 9). |
Abbreviations:
| | | | |
AGM | | – | | Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. |
AMBAC | | – | | AMBAC Financial Group, Inc. |
AMT | | – | | Interest earned from these securities may be considered a tax preference item for purposes of the Federal Alternative Minimum Tax. |
BAM | | – | | Build America Mutual Assurance Co. |
NPFG | | – | | National Public Finance Guaranty Corp. |
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Statement of Assets and Liabilities
| | | | |
Assets | | March 31, 2017 | |
Investments, at value (identified cost, $89,686,532) | | $ | 91,149,739 | |
Cash | | | 555,287 | |
Interest and dividends receivable | | | 1,078,851 | |
Receivable for investments sold | | | 88,914 | |
Receivable for Fund shares sold | | | 102,988 | |
Total assets | | $ | 92,975,779 | |
|
Liabilities | |
Payable for Fund shares redeemed | | $ | 188,707 | |
Distributions payable | | | 45,884 | |
Payable to affiliates: | | | | |
Investment adviser fee | | | 31,477 | |
Distribution and service fees | | | 24,158 | |
Accrued expenses | | | 70,053 | |
Total liabilities | | $ | 360,279 | |
Net Assets | | $ | 92,615,500 | |
|
Sources of Net Assets | |
Paid-in capital | | $ | 96,455,100 | |
Accumulated net realized loss | | | (5,288,439 | ) |
Accumulated distributions in excess of net investment income | | | (14,368 | ) |
Net unrealized appreciation | �� | | 1,463,207 | |
Net Assets | | $ | 92,615,500 | |
|
Class A Shares | |
Net Assets | | $ | 51,982,681 | |
Shares Outstanding | | | 5,321,001 | |
Net Asset Value and Redemption Price Per Share | | | | |
(net assets ÷ shares of beneficial interest outstanding) | | $ | 9.77 | |
Maximum Offering Price Per Share | | | | |
(100 ÷ 97.75 of net asset value per share) | | $ | 9.99 | |
|
Class C Shares | |
Net Assets | | $ | 22,763,352 | |
Shares Outstanding | | | 2,450,784 | |
Net Asset Value and Offering Price Per Share* | | | | |
(net assets ÷ shares of beneficial interest outstanding) | | $ | 9.29 | |
|
Class I Shares | |
Net Assets | | $ | 17,869,467 | |
Shares Outstanding | | | 1,829,019 | |
Net Asset Value, Offering Price and Redemption Price Per Share | | | | |
(net assets ÷ shares of beneficial interest outstanding) | | $ | 9.77 | |
On sales of $100,000 or more ($50,000 or more for certain financial intermediaries, as disclosed in an appendix to the Fund’s prospectus), the offering price of Class A shares is reduced.
* | Redemption price per share is equal to the net asset value less any applicable contingent deferred sales charge. |
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Statement of Operations
| | | | |
Investment Income | | Year Ended March 31, 2017 | |
Interest | | $ | 3,169,879 | |
Dividends | | | 24,496 | |
Total investment income | | $ | 3,194,375 | |
| |
Expenses | | | | |
Investment adviser fee | | $ | 373,457 | |
Distribution and service fees | | | | |
Class A | | | 77,209 | |
Class C | | | 224,101 | |
Trustees’ fees and expenses | | | 5,599 | |
Custodian fee | | | 35,307 | |
Transfer and dividend disbursing agent fees | | | 36,955 | |
Legal and accounting services | | | 53,259 | |
Printing and postage | | | 14,496 | |
Registration fees | | | 5,807 | |
Miscellaneous | | | 26,973 | |
Total expenses | | $ | 853,163 | |
| |
Net investment income | | $ | 2,341,212 | |
| |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | | | |
Net realized gain (loss) — | | | | |
Investment transactions | | $ | 1,066,720 | |
Net realized gain | | $ | 1,066,720 | |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) — | | | | |
Investments | | $ | (4,234,074 | ) |
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | $ | (4,234,074 | ) |
| |
Net realized and unrealized loss | | $ | (3,167,354 | ) |
| |
Net decrease in net assets from operations | | $ | (826,142 | ) |
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Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| | | | | | | | |
| | Year Ended March 31, | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 2017 | | | 2016 | |
From operations — | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income | | $ | 2,341,212 | | | $ | 2,296,794 | |
Net realized gain from investment transactions | | | 1,066,720 | | | | 18,194 | |
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) from investments | | | (4,234,074 | ) | | | (164,150 | ) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from operations | | $ | (826,142 | ) | | $ | 2,150,838 | |
Distributions to shareholders — | | | | | | | | |
From net investment income | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | $ | (1,377,264 | ) | | $ | (1,358,990 | ) |
Class B | | | — | | | | (559 | ) |
Class C | | | (479,708 | ) | | | (514,954 | ) |
Class I | | | (461,452 | ) | | | (397,530 | ) |
Total distributions to shareholders | | $ | (2,318,424 | ) | | $ | (2,272,033 | ) |
Transactions in shares of beneficial interest — | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from sale of shares | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | $ | 13,828,168 | | | $ | 4,371,678 | |
Class B | | | — | | | | 57 | |
Class C | | | 2,584,410 | | | | 5,327,646 | |
Class I | | | 9,181,696 | | | | 7,609,253 | |
Net asset value of shares issued to shareholders in payment of distributions declared | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | | 1,193,124 | | | | 1,173,307 | |
Class B | | | — | | | | 406 | |
Class C | | | 334,104 | | | | 379,319 | |
Class I | | | 242,062 | | | | 245,416 | |
Cost of shares redeemed | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | | (9,015,798 | ) | | | (9,208,811 | ) |
Class B | | | — | | | | (48,521 | ) |
Class C | | | (5,659,539 | ) | | | (5,697,067 | ) |
Class I | | | (4,578,290 | ) | | | (6,386,042 | ) |
Net asset value of shares exchanged | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | | — | | | | 43,596 | |
Class B | | | — | | | | (43,596 | ) |
Net asset value of shares merged* | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | | — | | | | 11,290 | |
Class B | | | — | | | | (11,290 | ) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from Fund share transactions | | $ | 8,109,937 | | | $ | (2,233,359 | ) |
| | |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets | | $ | 4,965,371 | | | $ | (2,354,554 | ) |
|
Net Assets | |
At beginning of year | | $ | 87,650,129 | | | $ | 90,004,683 | |
At end of year | | $ | 92,615,500 | | | $ | 87,650,129 | |
|
Accumulated distributions in excess of net investment income included in net assets | |
At end of year | | $ | (14,368 | ) | | $ | (27,267 | ) |
* | At the close of business on July 27, 2015, Class B shares were merged into Class A shares. |
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Financial Highlights
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Class A | |
| | Year Ended March 31, | |
| | 2017 | | | 2016 | | | 2015 | | | 2014 | | | 2013 | |
Net asset value — Beginning of year | | $ | 10.090 | | | $ | 10.110 | | | $ | 10.030 | | | $ | 10.410 | | | $ | 10.350 | |
| | | | | |
Income (Loss) From Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income(1) | | $ | 0.269 | | | $ | 0.275 | | | $ | 0.295 | | | $ | 0.307 | | | $ | 0.316 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | | (0.322 | ) | | | (0.023 | ) | | | 0.077 | | | | (0.382 | ) | | | 0.058 | |
| | | | | |
Total income (loss) from operations | | $ | (0.053 | ) | | $ | 0.252 | | | $ | 0.372 | | | $ | (0.075 | ) | | $ | 0.374 | |
| | | | | |
Less Distributions | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
From net investment income | | $ | (0.267 | ) | | $ | (0.272 | ) | | $ | (0.292 | ) | | $ | (0.305 | ) | | $ | (0.314 | ) |
| | | | | |
Total distributions | | $ | (0.267 | ) | | $ | (0.272 | ) | | $ | (0.292 | ) | | $ | (0.305 | ) | | $ | (0.314 | ) |
| | | | | |
Net asset value — End of year | | $ | 9.770 | | | $ | 10.090 | | | $ | 10.110 | | | $ | 10.030 | | | $ | 10.410 | |
| | | | | |
Total Return(2) | | | (0.55 | )% | | | 2.54 | % | | | 3.74 | % | | | (0.69 | )% | | | 3.65 | % |
| | | | | |
Ratios/Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of year (000’s omitted) | | $ | 51,983 | | | $ | 47,738 | | | $ | 51,458 | | | $ | 52,346 | | | $ | 59,142 | |
Ratios (as a percentage of average daily net assets): | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses(3) | | | 0.74 | % | | | 0.75 | % | | | 0.77 | % | | | 0.76 | % | | | 0.77 | % |
Net investment income | | | 2.70 | % | | | 2.74 | % | | | 2.91 | % | | | 3.05 | % | | | 3.02 | % |
Portfolio Turnover | | | 68 | % | | | 9 | % | | | 8 | % | | | 15 | % | | | 9 | % |
(1) | Computed using average shares outstanding. |
(2) | Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value with all distributions reinvested and do not reflect the effect of sales charges. |
(3) | Excludes the effect of custody fee credits, if any, of less than 0.005%. Effective September 1, 2015, custody fee credits, which were earned on cash deposit balances, were discontinued by the custodian. |
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| | Class C | |
| | Year Ended March 31, | |
| | 2017 | | | 2016 | | | 2015 | | | 2014 | | | 2013 | |
Net asset value — Beginning of year | | $ | 9.590 | | | $ | 9.610 | | | $ | 9.540 | | | $ | 9.900 | | | $ | 9.840 | |
| | | | | |
Income (Loss) From Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income(1) | | $ | 0.185 | | | $ | 0.190 | | | $ | 0.208 | | | $ | 0.220 | | | $ | 0.226 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | | (0.302 | ) | | | (0.023 | ) | | | 0.067 | | | | (0.362 | ) | | | 0.058 | |
| | | | | |
Total income (loss) from operations | | $ | (0.117 | ) | | $ | 0.167 | | | $ | 0.275 | | | $ | (0.142 | ) | | $ | 0.284 | |
| | | | | |
Less Distributions | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
From net investment income | | $ | (0.183 | ) | | $ | (0.187 | ) | | $ | (0.205 | ) | | $ | (0.218 | ) | | $ | (0.224 | ) |
| | | | | |
Total distributions | | $ | (0.183 | ) | | $ | (0.187 | ) | | $ | (0.205 | ) | | $ | (0.218 | ) | | $ | (0.224 | ) |
| | | | | |
Net asset value — End of year | | $ | 9.290 | | | $ | 9.590 | | | $ | 9.610 | | | $ | 9.540 | | | $ | 9.900 | |
| | | | | |
Total Return(2) | | | (1.24 | )% | | | 1.77 | % | | | 2.90 | % | | | (1.42 | )% | | | 2.91 | % |
| | | | | |
Ratios/Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of year (000’s omitted) | | $ | 22,763 | | | $ | 26,312 | | | $ | 26,342 | | | $ | 25,778 | | | $ | 28,137 | |
Ratios (as a percentage of average daily net assets): | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses(3) | | | 1.50 | % | | | 1.50 | % | | | 1.52 | % | | | 1.51 | % | | | 1.52 | % |
Net investment income | | | 1.95 | % | | | 1.99 | % | | | 2.16 | % | | | 2.29 | % | | | 2.27 | % |
Portfolio Turnover | | | 68 | % | | | 9 | % | | | 8 | % | | | 15 | % | | | 9 | % |
(1) | Computed using average shares outstanding. |
(2) | Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value with all distributions reinvested and do not reflect the effect of sales charges. |
(3) | Excludes the effect of custody fee credits, if any, of less than 0.005%. Effective September 1, 2015, custody fee credits, which were earned on cash deposit balances, were discontinued by the custodian. |
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| | 15 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
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New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Financial Highlights — continued
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| | Class I | |
| | Year Ended March 31, | |
| | 2017 | | | 2016 | | | 2015 | | | 2014 | | | 2013 | |
Net asset value — Beginning of year | | $ | 10.090 | | | $ | 10.110 | | | $ | 10.030 | | | $ | 10.410 | | | $ | 10.350 | |
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Income (Loss) From Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income | | $ | 0.284 | (1) | | $ | 0.290 | (1) | | $ | 0.308 | (1) | | $ | 0.323 | (1) | | $ | 0.331 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | | (0.322 | ) | | | (0.023 | ) | | | 0.079 | | | | (0.383 | ) | | | 0.059 | |
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Total income (loss) from operations | | $ | (0.038 | ) | | $ | 0.267 | | | $ | 0.387 | | | $ | (0.060 | ) | | $ | 0.390 | |
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Less Distributions | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
From net investment income | | $ | (0.282 | ) | | $ | (0.287 | ) | | $ | (0.307 | ) | | $ | (0.320 | ) | | $ | (0.330 | ) |
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Total distributions | | $ | (0.282 | ) | | $ | (0.287 | ) | | $ | (0.307 | ) | | $ | (0.320 | ) | | $ | (0.330 | ) |
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Net asset value — End of year | | $ | 9.770 | | | $ | 10.090 | | | $ | 10.110 | | | $ | 10.030 | | | $ | 10.410 | |
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Total Return(2) | | | (0.40 | )% | | | 2.70 | % | | | 3.89 | % | | | (0.54 | )% | | | 3.80 | % |
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Ratios/Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of year (000’s omitted) | | $ | 17,869 | | | $ | 13,601 | | | $ | 12,101 | | | $ | 6,225 | | | $ | 7,653 | |
Ratios (as a percentage of average daily net assets): | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses(3) | | | 0.60 | % | | | 0.60 | % | | | 0.62 | % | | | 0.61 | % | | | 0.62 | % |
Net investment income | | | 2.85 | % | | | 2.89 | % | | | 3.04 | % | | | 3.20 | % | | | 3.16 | % |
Portfolio Turnover | | | 68 | % | | | 9 | % | | | 8 | % | | | 15 | % | | | 9 | % |
(1) | Computed using average shares outstanding. |
(2) | Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value with all distributions reinvested. |
(3) | Excludes the effect of custody fee credits, if any, of less than 0.005%. Effective September 1, 2015, custody fee credits, which were earned on cash deposit balances, were discontinued by the custodian. |
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| | 16 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements
1 Significant Accounting Policies
Eaton Vance New York Municipal Opportunities Fund (formerly, Eaton Vance New York Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund) (the Fund) is a diversified series of Eaton Vance Investment Trust (the Trust). The Trust is a Massachusetts business trust registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company. The Fund’s investment objective is to seek to maximize after-tax total return. Prior to April 25, 2016, the Fund’s investment objective was to provide current income exempt from regular federal income tax and New York State and New York City personal income taxes. The Fund offers three classes of shares. Class A shares are generally sold subject to a sales charge imposed at time of purchase. Class C shares are sold at net asset value and are generally subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (see Note 5). Class I shares are sold at net asset value and are not subject to a sales charge. Each class represents a pro-rata interest in the Fund, but votes separately on class-specific matters and (as noted below) is subject to different expenses. Realized and unrealized gains and losses are allocated daily to each class of shares based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Net investment income, other than class-specific expenses, is allocated daily to each class of shares based upon the ratio of the value of each class’s paid shares to the total value of all paid shares. Each class of shares differs in its distribution plan and certain other class-specific expenses.
The following is a summary of significant accounting policies of the Fund. The policies are in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (U.S. GAAP). The Fund is an investment company and follows accounting and reporting guidance in the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946.
A Investment Valuation — The following methodologies are used to determine the market value or fair value of investments.
Debt Obligations. Debt obligations are generally valued on the basis of valuations provided by third party pricing services, as derived from such services’ pricing models. Inputs to the models may include, but are not limited to, reported trades, executable bid and asked prices, broker/dealer quotations, prices or yields of securities with similar characteristics, interest rates, anticipated prepayments, benchmark curves or information pertaining to the issuer, as well as industry and economic events. The pricing services may use a matrix approach, which considers information regarding securities with similar characteristics to determine the valuation for a security. Short-term obligations purchased with a remaining maturity of sixty days or less for which a valuation from a third party pricing service is not readily available may be valued at amortized cost, which approximates fair value.
Fair Valuation. Investments for which valuations or market quotations are not readily available or are deemed unreliable are valued at fair value using methods determined in good faith by or at the direction of the Trustees of the Fund in a manner that fairly reflects the security’s value, or the amount that the Fund might reasonably expect to receive for the security upon its current sale in the ordinary course. Each such determination is based on a consideration of relevant factors, which are likely to vary from one pricing context to another. These factors may include, but are not limited to, the type of security, the existence of any contractual restrictions on the security’s disposition, the price and extent of public trading in similar securities of the issuer or of comparable entities, quotations or relevant information obtained from broker/dealers or other market participants, information obtained from the issuer, analysts, and/or the appropriate stock exchange (for exchange-traded securities), an analysis of the entity’s financial condition, and an evaluation of the forces that influence the issuer and the market(s) in which the security is purchased and sold.
B Investment Transactions and Related Income — Investment transactions for financial statement purposes are accounted for on a trade date basis. Realized gains and losses on investments sold are determined on the basis of identified cost. Interest income is recorded on the basis of interest accrued, adjusted for amortization of premium or accretion of discount. Distributions from investment companies are recorded as dividend income, capital gains or return of capital based on the nature of the distribution.
C Federal Taxes — The Fund’s policy is to comply with the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies and to distribute to shareholders each year substantially all of its taxable, if any, and tax-exempt net investment income, and all or substantially all of its net realized capital gains. Accordingly, no provision for federal income or excise tax is necessary. The Fund intends to satisfy conditions which will enable it to designate distributions from the interest and dividend income generated by its investments in non-taxable municipal securities, which are exempt from regular federal income tax when received by the Fund, as exempt-interest dividends. The portion of such interest, if any, earned on private activity bonds issued after August 7, 1986, may be considered a tax preference item to shareholders.
As of March 31, 2017, the Fund had no uncertain tax positions that would require financial statement recognition, de-recognition, or disclosure. The Fund files a U.S. federal income tax return annually after its fiscal year-end, which is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service for a period of three years from the date of filing.
D Expenses — The majority of expenses of the Trust are directly identifiable to an individual fund. Expenses which are not readily identifiable to a specific fund are allocated taking into consideration, among other things, the nature and type of expense and the relative size of the funds.
E Legal Fees — Legal fees and other related expenses incurred as part of negotiations of the terms and requirement of capital infusions, or that are expected to result in the restructuring of, or a plan of reorganization for, an investment are recorded as realized losses. Ongoing expenditures to protect or enhance an investment are treated as operating expenses.
F Use of Estimates — The preparation of the financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and expense during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
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New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements — continued
G Indemnifications — Under the Trust’s organizational documents, its officers and Trustees may be indemnified against certain liabilities and expenses arising out of the performance of their duties to the Fund. Under Massachusetts law, if certain conditions prevail, shareholders of a Massachusetts business trust (such as the Trust) could be deemed to have personal liability for the obligations of the Trust. However, the Trust’s Declaration of Trust contains an express disclaimer of liability on the part of Fund shareholders and the By-laws provide that the Trust shall assume the defense on behalf of any Fund shareholders. Moreover, the By-laws also provide for indemnification out of Fund property of any shareholder held personally liable solely by reason of being or having been a shareholder for all loss or expense arising from such liability. Additionally, in the normal course of business, the Fund enters into agreements with service providers that may contain indemnification clauses. The Fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Fund that have not yet occurred.
H When-Issued Securities and Delayed Delivery Transactions — The Fund may purchase or sell securities on a delayed delivery or when-issued basis. Payment and delivery may take place after the customary settlement period for that security. At the time the transaction is negotiated, the price of the security that will be delivered is fixed. The Fund maintains cash and/or security positions for these commitments such that sufficient liquid assets will be available to make payments upon settlement. Securities purchased on a delayed delivery or when-issued basis are marked-to-market daily and begin earning interest on settlement date. Losses may arise due to changes in the market value of the underlying securities or if the counterparty does not perform under the contract.
2 Distributions to Shareholders and Income Tax Information
The net investment income of the Fund is determined daily and substantially all of the net investment income so determined is declared as a dividend to shareholders of record at the time of declaration. Distributions are declared separately for each class of shares. Distributions are paid monthly. Distributions of realized capital gains (reduced by available capital loss carryforwards from prior years) are made at least annually. Shareholders may reinvest income and capital gain distributions in additional shares of the same class of the Fund at the net asset value as of the reinvestment date or, at the election of the shareholder, receive distributions in cash. Distributions to shareholders are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from U.S. GAAP. As required by U.S. GAAP, only distributions in excess of tax basis earnings and profits are reported in the financial statements as a return of capital. Permanent differences between book and tax accounting relating to distributions are reclassified to paid-in capital. For tax purposes, distributions from short-term capital gains are considered to be from ordinary income.
The tax character of distributions declared for the years ended March 31, 2017 and March 31, 2016 was as follows:
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| | Year Ended March 31, | |
| | 2017 | | | 2016 | |
| | |
Distributions declared from: | | | | | | | | |
Tax-exempt income | | $ | 2,191,261 | | | $ | 2,272,033 | |
Ordinary income | | $ | 127,163 | | | $ | — | |
During the year ended March 31, 2017, accumulated net realized loss was decreased by $728,605, accumulated distributions in excess of net investment income was increased by $9,889 and paid-in capital was decreased by $718,716 due to expired capital loss carryforwards and differences between book and tax accounting, primarily for premium amortization, accretion of market discount and investments in partnerships. These reclassifications had no effect on the net assets or net asset value per share of the Fund.
As of March 31, 2017, the components of distributable earnings (accumulated losses) on a tax basis were as follows:
| | | | |
Undistributed tax-exempt income | | $ | 31,516 | |
Capital loss carryforwards and deferred capital losses | | $ | (5,365,662 | ) |
Net unrealized appreciation | | $ | 1,540,430 | |
Other temporary differences | | $ | (45,884 | ) |
The differences between components of distributable earnings (accumulated losses) on a tax basis and the amounts reflected in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities are primarily due to investments in partnerships, the timing of recognizing distributions to shareholders, premium amortization and accretion of market discount.
At March 31, 2017, the Fund, for federal income tax purposes, had capital loss carryforwards of $3,608,422 and deferred capital losses of $1,757,240 which would reduce its taxable income arising from future net realized gains on investment transactions, if any, to the extent permitted by the Internal Revenue Code, and thus would reduce the amount of distributions to shareholders, which would otherwise be necessary to relieve the Fund of any liability for federal income or excise tax. Such capital loss carryforwards will expire on March 31, 2018 ($2,585,819) and March 31, 2019 ($1,022,603) and
Eaton Vance
New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements — continued
their character is short-term. Under tax regulations, capital losses incurred in taxable years beginning after December 2010 are considered deferred capital losses and are treated as arising on the first day of the Fund’s next taxable year, retaining the same short-term or long-term character as when originally deferred. Deferred capital losses are required to be used prior to capital loss carryforwards, which carry an expiration date. As a result of this ordering rule, capital loss carryforwards may be more likely to expire unused. Of the deferred capital losses at March 31, 2017, $1,548,936 are short-term and $208,304 are long-term.
The cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments of the Fund at March 31, 2017, as determined on a federal income tax basis, were as follows:
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| |
Aggregate cost | | $ | 89,609,309 | |
| |
Gross unrealized appreciation | | $ | 3,217,929 | |
Gross unrealized depreciation | | | (1,677,499 | ) |
| |
Net unrealized appreciation | | $ | 1,540,430 | |
3 Investment Adviser Fee and Other Transactions with Affiliates
The investment adviser fee is earned by Boston Management and Research (BMR), a subsidiary of Eaton Vance Management (EVM), as compensation for management and investment advisory services rendered to the Fund. The fee is based upon a percentage of average daily net assets plus a percentage of gross income (i.e., income other than gains from the sale of securities) and is payable monthly. The annual asset rate and daily income rate are 0.30% and 3.00%, respectively, when daily net assets are less than $500 million and at reduced rates when daily net assets are $500 million or more. For the year ended March 31, 2017, the investment adviser fee amounted to $373,457 or 0.40% of the Fund’s average daily net assets.
EVM serves as the administrator of the Fund, but receives no compensation. EVM provides sub-transfer agency and related services to the Fund pursuant to a Sub-Transfer Agency Support Services Agreement. For the year ended March 31, 2017, EVM earned $4,324 from the Fund pursuant to such agreement, which is included in transfer and dividend disbursing agent fees on the Statement of Operations. The Fund was informed that Eaton Vance Distributors, Inc. (EVD), an affiliate of EVM and the Fund’s principal underwriter, received $2,300 as its portion of the sales charge on sales of Class A shares for the year ended March 31, 2017. EVD also received distribution and service fees from Class A and Class C shares (see Note 4) and contingent deferred sales charges (see Note 5).
Trustees and officers of the Fund who are members of EVM’s or BMR’s organizations receive remuneration for their services to the Fund out of the investment adviser fee. Trustees of the Fund who are not affiliated with the investment adviser may elect to defer receipt of all or a percentage of their annual fees in accordance with the terms of the Trustees Deferred Compensation Plan. For the year ended March 31, 2017, no significant amounts have been deferred. Certain officers and Trustees of the Fund are officers of the above organizations.
4 Distribution Plans
The Fund has in effect a distribution plan for Class A shares (Class A Plan) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. Pursuant to the Class A Plan, the Fund pays EVD a distribution and service fee not exceeding 0.25% per annum of its average daily net assets attributable to Class A shares for distribution services and facilities provided to the Fund by EVD, as well as for personal services and/or the maintenance of shareholder accounts. The Trustees approved distribution and service fee payments equal to 0.15% per annum of the Fund’s average daily net assets attributable to Class A shares. Distribution and service fees paid or accrued to EVD for the year ended March 31, 2017 amounted to $77,209 for Class A shares.
The Fund also has in effect a distribution plan for Class C shares (Class C Plan) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. Pursuant to the Class C Plan, the Fund pays EVD amounts equal to 0.75% per annum of its average daily net assets attributable to Class C shares for providing ongoing distribution services and facilities to the Fund. For the year ended March 31, 2017, the Fund paid or accrued to EVD $186,751 for Class C shares.
Pursuant to the Class C Plan, the Fund also makes payments of service fees to EVD, financial intermediaries and other persons in amounts not exceeding 0.25% per annum of its average daily net assets attributable to that class. The Trustees approved service fee payments equal to 0.15% per annum of the Fund’s average daily net assets attributable to Class C shares. Service fees paid or accrued are for personal services and/or the maintenance of shareholder accounts. They are separate and distinct from the Class C sales commissions and distribution fees payable to EVD. Service fees paid or accrued for the year ended March 31, 2017 amounted to $37,350 for Class C shares.
Distribution and service fees are subject to the limitations contained in the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Rule 2341(d).
Eaton Vance
New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements — continued
5 Contingent Deferred Sales Charges
A contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) of 1% generally is imposed on redemptions of Class C shares made within one year of purchase. Class A shares may be subject to a 1% CDSC if redeemed within eighteen months of purchase (depending on the circumstances of purchase). Generally, the CDSC is based upon the lower of the net asset value at date of redemption or date of purchase. No charge is levied on shares acquired by reinvestment of dividends or capital gain distributions. For the year ended March 31, 2017, the Fund was informed that EVD received less than $100 and approximately $2,000 of CDSCs paid by Class A and Class C shareholders, respectively.
6 Purchases and Sales of Investments
Purchases and sales of investments, other than short-term obligations, aggregated $70,908,023 and $62,887,547, respectively, for the year ended March 31, 2017.
7 Shares of Beneficial Interest
The Fund’s Declaration of Trust permits the Trustees to issue an unlimited number of full and fractional shares of beneficial interest (without par value). Such shares may be issued in a number of different series (such as the Fund) and classes. Transactions in Fund shares were as follows:
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| | Year Ended March 31, | |
Class A | | 2017 | | | 2016 | |
| | |
Sales | | | 1,383,185 | | | | 434,990 | |
Issued to shareholders electing to receive payments of distributions in Fund shares | | | 119,771 | | | | 116,887 | |
Redemptions | | | (913,718 | ) | | | (917,831 | ) |
Exchange from Class B shares | | | — | | | | 4,347 | |
Merger from Class B shares | | | — | | | | 1,130 | |
| | |
Net increase (decrease) | | | 589,238 | | | | (360,477 | ) |
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Class B(1) | | | | | Year Ended March 31, 2016 | |
| | |
Sales | | | | | | | 6 | |
Issued to shareholders electing to receive payments of distributions in Fund shares | | | | | | | 40 | |
Redemptions | | | | | | | (4,865 | ) |
Exchange to Class A shares | | | | | | | (4,346 | ) |
Merger to Class A shares | | | | | | | (1,132 | ) |
| | |
Net decrease | | | | | | | (10,297 | ) |
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| | Year Ended March 31, | |
Class C | | 2017 | | | 2016 | |
| | |
Sales | | | 269,909 | | | | 558,966 | |
Issued to shareholders electing to receive payments of distributions in Fund shares | | | 35,230 | | | | 39,739 | |
Redemptions | | | (597,382 | ) | | | (597,366 | ) |
| | |
Net increase (decrease) | | | (292,243 | ) | | | 1,339 | |
| | |
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Eaton Vance
New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements — continued
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| | Year Ended March 31, | |
Class I | | 2017 | | | 2016 | |
| | |
Sales | | | 922,017 | | | | 758,855 | |
Issued to shareholders electing to receive payments of distributions in Fund shares | | | 24,277 | | | | 24,445 | |
Redemptions | | | (465,288 | ) | | | (632,556 | ) |
| | |
Net increase | | | 481,006 | | | | 150,744 | |
(1) | At the close of business on July 27, 2015, the Fund’s Class B shares were merged into Class A shares. |
8 Line of Credit
The Fund participates with other portfolios and funds managed by EVM and its affiliates in a $625 million unsecured line of credit agreement with a group of banks, which is in effect through September 1, 2017. Borrowings are made by the Fund solely to facilitate the handling of unusual and/or unanticipated short-term cash requirements. Interest is charged to the Fund based on its borrowings at an amount above either the Eurodollar rate or Federal Funds rate. In addition, a fee computed at an annual rate of 0.15% on the daily unused portion of the line of credit is allocated among the participating portfolios and funds at the end of each quarter. Because the line of credit is not available exclusively to the Fund, it may be unable to borrow some or all of its requested amounts at any particular time. The Fund did not have any significant borrowings or allocated fees during the year ended March 31, 2017.
9 Fair Value Measurements
Under generally accepted accounting principles for fair value measurements, a three-tier hierarchy to prioritize the assumptions, referred to as inputs, is used in valuation techniques to measure fair value. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized in the three broad levels listed below.
• | | Level 1 – quoted prices in active markets for identical investments |
• | | Level 2 – other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.) |
• | | Level 3 – significant unobservable inputs (including a fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments) |
In cases where the inputs used to measure fair value fall in different levels of the fair value hierarchy, the level disclosed is determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
At March 31, 2017, the hierarchy of inputs used in valuing the Fund’s investments, which are carried at value, were as follows:
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Asset Description | | Level 1 | | | Level 2 | | | Level 3* | | | Total | |
| | | | |
Tax-Exempt Municipal Securities | | $ | — | | | $ | 86,049,408 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 86,049,408 | |
Taxable Municipal Securities | | | — | | | | 3,911,990 | | | | — | | | | 3,911,990 | |
Closed-End Funds | | | 784,499 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 784,499 | |
Miscellaneous | | | — | | | | — | | | | 403,842 | | | | 403,842 | |
| | | | |
Total Investments | | $ | 784,499 | | | $ | 89,961,398 | | | $ | 403,842 | | | $ | 91,149,739 | |
* | None of the unobservable inputs for Level 3 assets, individually or collectively, had a material impact on the Fund. |
Level 3 investments at the beginning and/or end of the period in relation to net assets were not significant and accordingly, a reconciliation of Level 3 assets for the year ended March 31, 2017 is not presented.
At March 31, 2017, there were no investments transferred between Level 1 and Level 2 during the year then ended.
10 Name Change
Effective April 25, 2016, the name of Eaton Vance New York Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund was changed to Eaton Vance New York Municipal Opportunities Fund and its investment objective was changed as disclosed in Note 1.
Eaton Vance
New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Trustees of Eaton Vance Investment Trust and Shareholders of Eaton Vance New York Municipal Opportunities Fund:
We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of Eaton Vance New York Municipal Opportunities Fund (formerly, Eaton Vance New York Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund) (the “Fund”) (one of the funds constituting Eaton Vance Investment Trust), including the portfolio of investments, as of March 31, 2017, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. The Fund is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Fund’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of March 31, 2017, by correspondence with the custodian and brokers; where replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, such financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Eaton Vance New York Municipal Opportunities Fund as of March 31, 2017, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
Boston, Massachusetts
May 19, 2017
Eaton Vance
New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Federal Tax Information (Unaudited)
The Form 1099-DIV you receive in February 2018 will show the tax status of all distributions paid to your account in calendar year 2017. Shareholders are advised to consult their own tax adviser with respect to the tax consequences of their investment in the Fund. As required by the Internal Revenue Code and/or regulations, shareholders must be notified regarding exempt-interest dividends.
Exempt-Interest Dividends. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017, the Fund designates 94.52% of distributions from net investment income as an exempt-interest dividend.
Eaton Vance
New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Management and Organization
Fund Management. The Trustees of Eaton Vance Investment Trust (the Trust) are responsible for the overall management and supervision of the Trust’s affairs. The Trustees and officers of the Trust are listed below. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the last five years. Trustees and officers of the Trust hold indefinite terms of office. The “Noninterested Trustees” consist of those Trustees who are not “interested persons” of the Trust, as that term is defined under the 1940 Act. The business address of each Trustee and officer is Two International Place, Boston, Massachusetts 02110. As used below, “EVC” refers to Eaton Vance Corp., “EV” refers to Eaton Vance, Inc., “EVM” refers to Eaton Vance Management, “BMR” refers to Boston Management and Research, “EVMI” refers to Eaton Vance Management (International) Limited and “EVD” refers to Eaton Vance Distributors, Inc. EVC and EV are the corporate parent and trustee, respectively, of EVM and BMR. EVMI is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of EVC. EVD is the Fund’s principal underwriter and a wholly-owned subsidiary of EVC. Each officer affiliated with Eaton Vance may hold a position with other Eaton Vance affiliates that is comparable to his or her position with EVM listed below. Each Trustee oversees 177 portfolios in the Eaton Vance Complex (including all master and feeder funds in a master feeder structure). Each officer serves as an officer of certain other Eaton Vance funds. Each Trustee and officer serves until his or her successor is elected.
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Name and Year of Birth | | Position(s) with the Trust | | Trustee Since(1) | | Principal Occupation(s) and Directorships During Past Five Years and Other Relevant Experience |
Interested Trustee |
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Thomas E. Faust Jr. 1958 | | Trustee | | 2007 | | Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of EVC, Director and President of EV, Chief Executive Officer and President of EVM and BMR, and Director of EVD and EVMI. Trustee and/or officer of 177 registered investment companies. Mr. Faust is an interested person because of his positions with EVM, BMR, EVD, EVMI, EVC and EV, which are affiliates of the Trust. Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) Director of EVC and Hexavest Inc. (investment management firm). |
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Scott E. Eston 1956 | | Trustee | | 2011 | | Private investor. Formerly held various positions at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo and Co., LLC (investment management firm) (1997-2009), including Chief Operating Officer (2002-2009), Chief Financial Officer (1997-2009) and Chairman of the Executive Committee (2002-2008); President and Principal Executive Officer, GMO Trust (open-end registered investment company) (2006-2009). Former Partner, Coopers and Lybrand LLP (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) (a registered public accounting firm) (1987-1997). Mr. Eston has apprised the Board of Trustees that he intends to retire as a Trustee of all Eaton Vance funds effective September 30, 2017. Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) None. |
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Mark R. Fetting(3) 1954 | | Trustee | | 2016 | | Private investor. Formerly held various positions at Legg Mason, Inc. (investment management firm) (2000-2012), including President, Chief Executive Officer, Director and Chairman (2008-2012), Senior Executive Vice President (2004-2008) and Executive Vice President (2001-2004). Formerly, President of Legg Mason family of funds (2001-2008). Formerly, Division President and Senior Officer of Prudential Financial Group, Inc. and related companies (investment management firm) (1991-2000). Directorships in the Last Five Years. Formerly, Director and Chairman of Legg Mason, Inc. (2008-2012); Director/Trustee and Chairman of Legg Mason family of funds (14 funds) (2008-2012); and Director/Trustee of the Royce family of funds (35 funds) (2001-2012). |
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Cynthia E. Frost 1961 | | Trustee | | 2014 | | Private investor. Formerly, Chief Investment Officer of Brown University (university endowment) (2000-2012); Portfolio Strategist for Duke Management Company (university endowment manager) (1995-2000); Managing Director, Cambridge Associates (investment consulting company) (1989-1995); Consultant, Bain and Company (management consulting firm) (1987-1989); Senior Equity Analyst, BA Investment Management Company (1983-1985). Directorships in the Last Five Years. None. |
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George J. Gorman 1952 | | Trustee | | 2014 | | Principal at George J. Gorman LLC (consulting firm). Formerly, Senior Partner at Ernst & Young LLP (a registered public accounting firm) (1974-2009). Directorships in the Last Five Years. Formerly, Trustee of the BofA Funds Series Trust (11 funds) (2011-2014) and of the Ashore Funds (9 funds) (2010-2014). |
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New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Management and Organization — continued
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Name and Year of Birth | | Position(s) with the Trust | | Trustee Since(1) | | Principal Occupation(s) and Directorships During Past Five Years and Other Relevant Experience |
Noninterested Trustees (continued) |
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Valerie A. Mosley 1960 | | Trustee | | 2014 | | Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of Valdo Ventures (a consulting and investment firm). Former Partner and Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Investment Strategist at Wellington Management Company, LLP (investment management firm) (1992-2012). Former Chief Investment Officer, PG Corbin Asset Management (1990-1992). Formerly worked in institutional corporate bond sales at Kidder Peabody (1986-1990). Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) Director of Dyne Capital, Inc. (mortgage REIT) (since 2013). |
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William H. Park 1947 | | Chairperson of the Board and Trustee | | 2016 (Chairperson) 2003 (Trustee) | | Private investor. Formerly, Consultant (management and transactional) (2012-2014). Formerly, Chief Financial Officer, Avon Group L.P. (investment management firm) (2010-2011). Formerly, Vice Chairman, Commercial Industrial Finance Corp. (specialty finance company) (2006-2010). Formerly, President and Chief Executive Officer, Prizm Capital Management, LLC (investment management firm) (2002-2005). Formerly, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, United Asset Management Corporation (investment management firm) (1982-2001). Formerly, Senior Manager, Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) (a registered public accounting firm) (1972-1981). Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) None. |
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Helen Frame Peters 1948 | | Trustee | | 2008 | | Professor of Finance, Carroll School of Management, Boston College. Formerly, Dean, Carroll School of Management, Boston College (2000-2002). Formerly, Chief Investment Officer, Fixed Income, Scudder Kemper Investments (investment management firm) (1998-1999). Formerly, Chief Investment Officer, Equity and Fixed Income, Colonial Management Associates (investment management firm) (1991-1998). Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) Formerly, Director of BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc. (wholesale club retailer) (2004-2011). Formerly, Trustee of SPDR Index Shares Funds and SPDR Series Trust (exchange traded funds) (2000-2009). Formerly, Director of Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston (a bank for banks) (2007-2009). |
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Susan J. Sutherland 1957 | | Trustee | | 2015 | | Private investor. Formerly, Associate, Counsel and Partner at Sadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (law firm) (1982-2013). Directorships in the Last Five Years. Formerly, Director of Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. (global provider of customized insurance and reinsurance products) (2013-2015). |
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Harriett Tee Taggart 1948 | | Trustee | | 2011 | | Managing Director, Taggart Associates (a professional practice firm). Formerly, Partner and Senior Vice President, Wellington Management Company, LLP (investment management firm) (1983-2006). Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) Director of Albemarle Corporation (chemicals manufacturer) (since 2007) and The Hanover Group (specialty property and casualty insurance company) (since 2009). Formerly, Director of Lubrizol Corporation (specialty chemicals) (2007-2011). |
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Ralph F. Verni 1943 | | Trustee | | 2005 | | Consultant and private investor. Formerly, Chief Investment Officer (1982-1992), Chief Financial Officer (1988-1990) and Director (1982-1992), New England Life. Formerly, Chairperson, New England Mutual Funds (1982-1992). Formerly, President and Chief Executive Officer, State Street Management & Research (1992-2000). Formerly, Chairperson, State Street Research Mutual Funds (1992-2000). Formerly, Director, W.P. Carey, LLC (1998-2004) and First Pioneer Farm Credit Corp. (financial services cooperative) (2002-2006). Consistent with the Trustee retirement policy, Mr. Verni is currently expected to retire as a Trustee of all Eaton Vance funds effective July 1, 2017. Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) None. |
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New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Management and Organization — continued
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Name and Year of Birth | | Position(s) with the Trust | | Trustee Since(1) | | Principal Occupation(s) and Directorships During Past Five Years and Other Relevant Experience |
Noninterested Trustees (continued) |
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Scott E. Wennerholm(3) 1959 | | Trustee | | 2016 | | Consultant at GF Parish Group (executive recruiting firm). Trustee at Wheelock College (postsecondary institution) (since 2012). Formerly, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President at BNY Mellon Asset Management (investment management firm) (2005-2011). Formerly, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Natixis Global Asset Management (investment management firm) (1997-2004). Formerly, Vice President at Fidelity Investments Institutional Services (investment management firm) (1994-1997). Directorships in the Last Five Years. None. |
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Principal Officers who are not Trustees |
Name and Year of Birth | | Position(s) with the Trust | | Officer Since(4) | | Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years |
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Payson F. Swaffield 1956 | | President | | 2003 | | Vice President and Chief Income Investment Officer of EVM and BMR. |
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Maureen A. Gemma 1960 | | Vice President, Secretary and Chief Legal Officer | | 2005 | | Vice President of EVM and BMR. Also Vice President of Calvert Research and Management (“CRM”). |
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James F. Kirchner 1967 | | Treasurer | | 2007 | | Vice President of EVM and BMR. Also Vice President of CRM. |
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Paul M. O’Neil 1953 | | Chief Compliance Officer | | 2004 | | Vice President of EVM and BMR. |
(1) | Year first appointed to serve as Trustee for a fund in the Eaton Vance family of funds. Each Trustee has served continuously since appointment unless indicated otherwise. |
(2) | During their respective tenures, the Trustees (except for Mmes. Frost and Sutherland and Messrs. Fetting, Gorman and Wennerholm) also served as Board members of one or more of the following funds (which operated in the years noted): eUnitsTM 2 Year U.S. Market Participation Trust: Upside to Cap / Buffered Downside (launched in 2012 and terminated in 2014); eUnitsTM 2 Year U.S. Market Participation Trust II: Upside to Cap / Buffered Downside (launched in 2012 and terminated in 2014); and Eaton Vance National Municipal Income Trust (launched in 1998 and terminated in 2009). However, Ms. Mosley did not serve as a Board member of eUnitsTM 2 Year U.S. Market Participation Trust: Upside to Cap / Buffered Downside (launched in 2012 and terminated in 2014). |
(3) | Messrs. Fetting and Wennerholm began serving as Trustees effective September 1, 2016. |
(4) | Year first elected to serve as officer of a fund in the Eaton Vance family of funds when the officer has served continuously. Otherwise, year of most recent election as an officer of a fund in the Eaton Vance family of funds. Titles may have changed since initial election. |
The SAI for the Fund includes additional information about the Trustees and officers of the Fund and can be obtained without charge on Eaton Vance’s website at www.eatonvance.com or by calling 1-800-262-1122.
Eaton Vance Funds
IMPORTANT NOTICES
Privacy. The Eaton Vance organization is committed to ensuring your financial privacy. Each of the financial institutions identified below has in effect the following policy (“Privacy Policy”) with respect to nonpublic personal information about its customers:
• | | Only such information received from you, through application forms or otherwise, and information about your Eaton Vance fund transactions will be collected. This may include information such as name, address, social security number, tax status, account balances and transactions. |
• | | None of such information about you (or former customers) will be disclosed to anyone, except as permitted by law (which includes disclosure to employees necessary to service your account). In the normal course of servicing a customer’s account, Eaton Vance may share information with unaffiliated third parties that perform various required services such as transfer agents, custodians and broker-dealers. |
• | | Policies and procedures (including physical, electronic and procedural safeguards) are in place that are designed to protect the confidentiality of such information. |
• | | We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy at any time upon proper notification to you. Customers may want to review our Privacy Policy periodically for changes by accessing the link on our homepage: www.eatonvance.com. |
Our pledge of privacy applies to the following entities within the Eaton Vance organization: the Eaton Vance Family of Funds, Eaton Vance Management, Eaton Vance Investment Counsel, Eaton Vance Distributors, Inc., Eaton Vance Trust Company, Eaton Vance Management (International) Limited, Eaton Vance Management’s Real Estate Investment Group and Boston Management and Research. In addition, our Privacy Policy applies only to those Eaton Vance customers who are individuals and who have a direct relationship with us. If a customer’s account (i.e., fund shares) is held in the name of a third-party financial advisor/broker-dealer, it is likely that only such advisor’s privacy policies apply to the customer. This notice supersedes all previously issued privacy disclosures. For more information about Eaton Vance’s Privacy Policy, please call 1-800-262-1122.
Delivery of Shareholder Documents. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) permits funds to deliver only one copy of shareholder documents, including prospectuses, proxy statements and shareholder reports, to fund investors with multiple accounts at the same residential or post office box address. This practice is often called “householding” and it helps eliminate duplicate mailings to shareholders. Eaton Vance, or your financial advisor, may household the mailing of your documents indefinitely unless you instruct Eaton Vance, or your financial advisor, otherwise. If you would prefer that your Eaton Vance documents not be householded, please contact Eaton Vance at 1-800-262-1122, or contact your financial advisor. Your instructions that householding not apply to delivery of your Eaton Vance documents will typically be effective within 30 days of receipt by Eaton Vance or your financial advisor. Separate statements will be generated for each separate account and will be householded as described above.
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Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
Annual Report
March 31, 2017
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission Registration. Effective December 31, 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) adopted certain regulatory changes that subject registered investment companies and advisers to regulation by the CFTC if a fund invests more than a prescribed level of its assets in certain CFTC-regulated instruments (including futures, certain options and swap agreements) or markets itself as providing investment exposure to such instruments. The Fund has claimed an exclusion from the definition of the term “commodity pool operator” under the Commodity Exchange Act. Accordingly, neither the Fund nor the adviser with respect to the operation of the Fund is subject to CFTC regulation. Because of its management of other strategies, the Fund’s adviser is registered with the CFTC as a commodity pool operator and a commodity trading advisor.
Fund shares are not insured by the FDIC and are not deposits or other obligations of, or guaranteed by, any depository institution. Shares are subject to investment risks, including possible loss of principal invested.
This report must be preceded or accompanied by a current summary prospectus or prospectus. Before investing, investors should consider carefully the investment objective, risks, and charges and expenses of a mutual fund. This and other important information is contained in the summary prospectus and prospectus, which can be obtained from a financial advisor. Prospective investors should read the prospectus carefully before investing. For further information, please call 1-800-262-1122.
Annual Report March 31, 2017
Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
Table of Contents
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Management’s Discussion of Fund Performance | | | 2 | |
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Performance | | | 4 | |
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Fund Profile | | | 5 | |
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Endnotes and Additional Disclosures | | | 6 | |
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Fund Expenses | | | 7 | |
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Financial Statements | | | 8 | |
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm | | | 22 | |
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Federal Tax Information | | | 23 | |
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Special Meeting of Shareholders | | | 24 | |
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Management and Organization | | | 25 | |
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Important Notices | | | 28 | |
Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Management’s Discussion of Fund Performance1
Economic and Market Conditions
As the period opened on April 1, 2016, U.S. Treasurys, along with municipal bonds, were several months into a rally that would continue through nearly the first half of the period. Falling government interest rates around the world, driven by actions such as quantitative easing in Japan and the European Union, put many sovereign rates into negative territory and made U.S. Treasurys and municipal bonds look attractive by comparison.
The United Kingdom’s June 2016 vote to leave the European Union, ongoing Federal Reserve Board (the Fed) caution, and mixed U.S. economic reports continued to fuel the municipal rally in the summer of 2016. Even the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s July 1, 2016 default on over $1 billion in municipal bond and debt service payments — its second default in 2016 and its largest to date — failed to put a dent in the municipal rally, as the market had expected the defaults for some time.
In early fall, however, remarks by the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and the Fed seemed to indicate that rates might begin to rise sooner than markets had anticipated. As a result, municipal rates crept upward in September and October of 2016. In November, Donald Trump’s surprise win in the U.S. presidential election precipitated one of the largest municipal market declines in at least two decades. Rates rose and prices fell as markets anticipated that decreasing regulation and lower tax rates under a Trump administration could lead to higher economic growth and inflation.
Municipal bonds rallied modestly in December 2016, despite a Fed rate hike, making back some of the losses they had suffered the previous month. During January and February 2017, municipal bonds continued to stabilize, with little movement in interest rates. In the final month of the period, rates seesawed as President Trump’s March 1 address to Congress increased confidence in his pro-growth agenda and drove rates up — but the failure of Congress to pass health care reform later in the month cast doubt on the ability to enact that agenda, driving yields back down.
For the 12-month period as a whole, municipal market returns were virtually flat. Coupon yields and price appreciation earlier in the fiscal year were balanced by price declines from September through November 2016, and then a modest price recovery in the final months of the period. The yield curve for municipal AAA-rated6 issues experienced a “bear flattening.” Rates rose throughout the curve, but the greatest increases
occurred in the middle of the curve, causing the curve to flatten. Across the yield curve, municipal bonds, which had outperformed U.S. Treasurys from the beginning of the period until the election, performed approximately even with U.S. Treasurys for the period as a whole.
Fund Performance
For the 12-month period ended March 31, 2017, Eaton Vance Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund (the Fund) had a total return of 0.13% for Class A shares at net asset value (NAV), underperforming the 0.27% return of the Fund’s primary benchmark, the Bloomberg Barclays Short- Intermediate 1-10 Year Municipal Bond Index (the Index)2 for the period as a whole.
Effective November 14, 2016, the name of the Fund was changed from Eaton Vance Massachusetts Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund to Eaton Vance Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund, and the Fund’s investment objective and principal strategies were changed to reflect a national rather than single-state focus. In seeking to achieve its primary objective of maximizing after-tax total return, the Fund now employs a flexible investment strategy that allows it to seek opportunities virtually anywhere on the credit curve, across different sectors and different state issuers, while maintaining an average weighted duration7 below 4.5 years. Management has the ability to be opportunistic in pursuing the Fund’s after-tax total return objective, trading holdings whenever opportunities arise, with the ability to invest up to 20% of net assets in debt obligations other than tax-exempt municipal bonds, including (but not limited to) taxable municipal obligations, U.S. treasury securities and obligations of the U.S. Government, its agencies and instrumentalities. Up to 50% of the Fund’s net assets may be invested in below-investment-grade securities. The Fund may also hedge interest rate risk and hold leveraged investments.
In the period from the transition on November 14, 2016 through the end of the fiscal year on March 31, 2017, the Fund underperformed the Index. Detractors from Fund performance versus the Index included security selection and an overweight, relative to the Index, in the education sector; security selection in AAA-rated bonds; and security selection in 4.00% to 4.50% coupon bonds. In the municipal market, 5.00% coupon bonds are the most commonly held structure. Since lower coupon structures are less common, they trade at various spreads to 5.00% coupon bonds.
See Endnotes and Additional Disclosures in this report.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value (NAV) or offering price (as applicable) with all distributions reinvested. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance less than or equal to one year is cumulative. Performance is for the stated time period only; due to market volatility, the Fund’s current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. Returns are before taxes unless otherwise noted. For performance as of the most recent month-end, please refer to eatonvance.com.
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Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Management’s Discussion of Fund Performance—continued
In contrast, contributors to Fund performance versus the Index during the same period included an overweight and security selection in bonds issued by Illinois entities, an overweight and security selection in BBB-rated bonds, and security selection in general obligation bonds and zero-coupon bonds.
For the period from April 1 through November 13, 2016, when the Fund was a Massachusetts-focused portfolio, the Fund outperformed its previous primary benchmark, the Bloomberg Barclays 7 Year Municipal Bond Index. Contributors to Fund performance versus that benchmark, which includes only bonds with six to eight years remaining to maturity, included Fund holdings with maturities longer than eight years; an overweight and security selection in the education sector; and an overweight and security selection in insured Puerto Rico bonds. The Fund’s Puerto Rico holdings were insured by various municipal bond insurers. It should be noted that most uninsured bonds issued by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its various conduit issuers were no longer included in the Index. As Puerto Rico continued to deal with an ongoing fiscal crisis, bonds issued by its various legal entities were impacted by a number of factors throughout the period. As the period ended, the situation in Puerto Rico was continuing to evolve.
Detractors from performance versus the previous benchmark during the same period included an overweight in prerefunded, or escrowed, bonds; an overweight in bonds with maturities of five years or less; security selection in water and sewer bonds; and security selection in A-rated bonds.
See Endnotes and Additional Disclosures in this report.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value (NAV) or offering price (as applicable) with all distributions reinvested. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance less than or equal to one year is cumulative. Performance is for the stated time period only; due to market volatility, the Fund’s current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. Returns are before taxes unless otherwise noted. For performance as of the most recent month-end, please refer to eatonvance.com.
Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Performance2,3
Portfolio Manager Adam A. Weigold, CFA
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% Average Annual Total Returns | | Class Inception Date | | | Performance Inception Date | | | One Year | | | Five Years | | | Ten Years | |
Class A at NAV | | | 06/27/1996 | | | | 06/01/1992 | | | | 0.13 | % | | | 1.91 | % | | | 2.78 | % |
Class A with 2.25% Maximum Sales Charge | | | — | | | | — | | | | –2.11 | | | | 1.44 | | | | 2.55 | |
Class C at NAV | | | 12/08/1993 | | | | 06/01/1992 | | | | –0.73 | | | | 1.12 | | | | 2.00 | |
Class C with 1% Maximum Sales Charge | | | — | | | | — | | | | –1.70 | | | | 1.12 | | | | 2.00 | |
Class I at NAV | | | 08/03/2010 | | | | 06/01/1992 | | | | 0.27 | | | | 2.06 | | | | 2.86 | |
Bloomberg Barclays Short-Intermediate 1-10 Year Municipal Bond Index | | | — | | | | — | | | | 0.27 | % | | | 2.00 | % | | | 3.54 | % |
Bloomberg Barclays 7 Year Municipal Bond Index | | | — | | | | — | | | | –0.06 | | | | 2.72 | | | | 4.47 | |
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% Total Annual Operating Expense Ratios4 | | | | | | | | Class A | | | Class C | | | Class I | |
Gross | | | | | | | | | | | 0.77 | % | | | 1.52 | % | | | 0.62 | % |
Net | | | | | | | | | | | 0.70 | | | | 1.45 | | | | 0.55 | |
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% Distribution Rates/Yields5 | | | | | | | | Class A | | | Class C | | | Class I | |
Distribution Rate | | | | | | | | | | | 2.08 | % | | | 1.27 | % | | | 2.27 | % |
Taxable-Equivalent Distribution Rate | | | | | | | | | | | 3.67 | | | | 2.24 | | | | 4.01 | |
SEC 30-day Yield | | | | | | | | | | | 1.74 | | | | 1.04 | | | | 1.95 | |
Taxable-Equivalent SEC 30-day Yield | | | | | | | | | | | 3.07 | | | | 1.85 | | | | 3.45 | |
Growth of $10,000
This graph shows the change in value of a hypothetical investment of $10,000 in Class A of the Fund for the period indicated. For comparison, the same investment is shown in the indicated index.
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Growth of Investment3 | | Amount Invested | | | Period Beginning | | | At NAV | | | With Maximum Sales Charge | |
Class C | | $ | 10,000 | | | | 03/31/2007 | | | $ | 12,194 | | | | N.A. | |
Class I | | $ | 250,000 | | | | 03/31/2007 | | | $ | 331,581 | | | | N.A. | |
See Endnotes and Additional Disclosures in this report.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value (NAV) or offering price (as applicable) with all distributions reinvested. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance less than or equal to one year is cumulative. Performance is for the stated time period only; due to market volatility, the Fund’s current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. Returns are before taxes unless otherwise noted. For performance as of the most recent month-end, please refer to eatonvance.com.
Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Fund Profile
Credit Quality (% of total investments)6
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See Endnotes and Additional Disclosures in this report.
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Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Endnotes and Additional Disclosures
1 | The views expressed in this report are those of the portfolio manager(s) and are current only through the date stated at the top of this page. These views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions, and Eaton Vance and the Fund(s) disclaim any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied upon as investment advice and, because investment decisions are based on many factors, may not be relied upon as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Eaton Vance fund. This commentary may contain statements that are not historical facts, referred to as “forward looking statements”. The Fund’s actual future results may differ significantly from those stated in any forward looking statement, depending on factors such as changes in securities or financial markets or general economic conditions, the volume of sales and purchases of Fund shares, the continuation of investment advisory, administrative and service contracts, and other risks discussed from time to time in the Fund’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
2 | Bloomberg Barclays Short-Intermediate 1-10 Year Municipal Bond Index is an unmanaged index of municipal bonds traded in the U.S. with maturities ranging from 1-10 years. Bloomberg Barclays 7 Year Municipal Bond Index is an unmanaged index of municipal bonds traded in the U.S. with maturities ranging from 6-8 years. Unless otherwise stated, index returns do not reflect the effect of any applicable sales charges, commissions, expenses, taxes or leverage, as applicable. It is not possible to invest directly in an index. |
3 | Total Returns at NAV do not include applicable sales charges. If sales charges were deducted, the returns would be lower. Total Returns shown with maximum sales charge reflect the stated maximum sales charge. Unless otherwise stated, performance does not reflect the deduction of taxes on Fund distributions or redemptions of Fund shares. |
| Performance prior to the inception date of a class may be linked to the performance of an older class of the Fund. This linked performance is adjusted for any applicable sales charge, but is not adjusted for class expense differences. If adjusted for such differences, the performance would be different. The performance of Class I is linked to Class A. Performance since inception for an index, if presented, is the performance since the Fund’s or oldest share class’ inception, as applicable. Performance presented in the Financial Highlights included in the financial statements is not linked. |
| Effective November 14, 2016, the Fund changed its name, investment objective and investment strategy to seek to maximize after-tax total return. Effective November 14, 2016, the Fund changed its primary benchmark to the Bloomberg Barclays Short-Intermediate 1-10 Year Municipal Bond Index because the investment adviser believes it is more closely aligned with the Fund’s revised investment objective. Performance prior to November 14, 2016 reflects the Fund’s performance under its former investment objective and policies. |
4 | Source: Fund prospectus. Net expense ratios reflect a contractual expense reimbursement that continues through 7/31/18. Without the reimbursement, performance would have been lower. The expense ratios for the current reporting period can be found in the Financial Highlights section of this report. |
5 | The Distribution Rate is based on the Fund’s last regular distribution per share in the period (annualized) divided by the Fund’s NAV at the end of the period. The Fund’s distributions may be comprised of amounts characterized for federal income tax purposes as tax-exempt income, qualified and non-qualified ordinary dividends, capital gains and nondividend distributions, also known as return of capital. The Fund will determine the federal income tax character of distributions paid to a shareholder after the end of the calendar year. This is reported on the IRS form 1099- DIV and provided to the shareholder shortly after each year-end. The Fund’s distributions are determined by the investment adviser based on its current assessment of the Fund’s long-term return potential. As portfolio and market conditions change, the rate of distributions paid by the Fund could change. Taxable-equivalent performance is based on the highest combined federal and state income tax rates, where applicable. Lower tax rates would result in lower tax-equivalent performance. Actual tax rates will vary depending on your income, exemptions and deductions. Rates do not include local taxes. SEC Yield is a standardized measure based on the estimated yield to maturity of a fund’s investments over a 30-day period and is based on the maximum offer price at the date specified. The SEC Yield is not based on the distributions made by the Fund, which may differ. |
6 | Ratings are based on Moody’s, S&P or Fitch, as applicable. If securities are rated differently by the ratings agencies, the higher rating is applied. Ratings, which are subject to change, apply to the creditworthiness of the issuers of the underlying securities and not to the Fund or its shares. Credit ratings measure the quality of a bond based on the issuer’s creditworthiness, with ratings ranging from AAA, being the highest, to D, being the lowest based on S&P’s measures. Ratings of BBB or higher by S&P or Fitch (Baa or higher by Moody’s) are considered to be investment- grade quality. Credit ratings are based largely on the ratings agency’s analysis at the time of rating. The rating assigned to any particular security is not necessarily a reflection of the issuer’s current financial condition and does not necessarily reflect its assessment of the volatility of a security’s market value or of the liquidity of an investment in the security. Holdings designated as “Not Rated” are not rated by the national ratings agencies stated above. |
7 | Duration is a measure of the expected change in price of a bond — in percentage terms — given a one percent change in interest rates, all else being constant. Securities with lower durations tend to be less sensitive to interest rate changes. |
| Fund profile subject to change due to active management. |
Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Fund Expenses
Example: As a Fund shareholder, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on purchases and redemption fees (if applicable); and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees; distribution and/or service fees; and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of Fund investing and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds. The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (October 1, 2016 – March 31, 2017).
Actual Expenses: The first section of the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this section, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first section under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes: The second section of the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the actual Fund expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year (before expenses), which is not the actual Fund return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in your Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs, such as sales charges (loads) or redemption fees (if applicable). Therefore, the second section of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would be higher.
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| | Beginning Account Value (10/1/16) | | | Ending Account Value (3/31/17) | | | Expenses Paid During Period* (10/1/16 – 3/31/17) | | | Annualized Expense Ratio | |
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Actual | |
Class A | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 985.60 | | | $ | 4.11 | ** | | | 0.83 | % |
Class C | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 980.70 | | | $ | 7.75 | ** | | | 1.57 | % |
Class I | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 986.20 | | | $ | 3.96 | ** | | | 0.80 | % |
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Hypothetical | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(5% return per year before expenses) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 1,020.80 | | | $ | 4.18 | ** | | | 0.83 | % |
Class C | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 1,017.10 | | | $ | 7.90 | ** | | | 1.57 | % |
Class I | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 1,020.90 | | | $ | 4.03 | ** | | | 0.80 | % |
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Effective November 14, 2016, contractual expense caps of the Fund were implemented. If the expense caps had been in place during the entire reporting period, the actual and hypothetical ending account values, expenses paid and annualized expense ratios would have been as follows: | |
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| | Beginning Account Value (10/1/16) | | | Ending Account Value (3/31/17) | | | Expenses Paid During Period* (10/1/16 – 3/31/17) | | | Annualized Expense Ratio | |
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Actual | |
Class A | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 985.60 | | | $ | 3.47 | ** | | | 0.70 | % |
Class C | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 980.70 | | | $ | 7.16 | ** | | | 1.45 | % |
Class I | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 986.20 | | | $ | 2.72 | ** | | | 0.55 | % |
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Hypothetical | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(5% return per year before expenses) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 1,021.40 | | | $ | 3.53 | ** | | | 0.70 | % |
Class C | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 1,017.70 | | | $ | 7.29 | ** | | | 1.45 | % |
Class I | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | $ | 1,022.20 | | | $ | 2.77 | ** | | | 0.55 | % |
* | Expenses are equal to the Fund’s annualized expense ratio for the indicated Class, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 182/365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The Example assumes that the $1,000 was invested at the net asset value per share determined at the close of business on September 30, 2016. |
** | Absent an allocation of certain expenses to an affiliate, expenses would be higher. |
Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Portfolio of Investments
| | | | | | | | |
Tax-Exempt Municipal Securities — 101.7% | |
| | |
| | | | | | | | |
Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Education — 4.8% | |
Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, (Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Allied Health Sciences), 5.00%, 7/1/23 | | $ | 150 | | | $ | 175,641 | |
Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, (Wentworth Institute of Technology), 5.00%, 10/1/21 | | | 355 | | | | 395,750 | |
Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, (Wentworth Institute of Technology), 5.00%, 10/1/22 | | | 600 | | | | 675,894 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (Pace University), 4.00%, 5/1/22 | | | 495 | | | | 524,032 | |
Northeastern Pennsylvania Hospital and Education Authority, (Wilkes University), 5.00%, 3/1/19 | | | 200 | | | | 211,226 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 1,982,543 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Electric Utilities — 2.4% | |
Long Island Power Authority, NY, Electric System Revenue, 1.199%, 11/1/18 (Put Date), 5/1/33(1) | | $ | 500 | | | $ | 499,905 | |
Louisa Industrial Development Authority, VA, (Virginia Electric and Power Co.), 1.85% to 5/16/19 (Put Date), 11/1/35 | | | 500 | | | | 505,605 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 1,005,510 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Escrowed / Prerefunded — 2.5% | |
Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, Escrowed to Maturity, 5.00%, 1/1/20 | | $ | 990 | | | $ | 1,052,182 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 1,052,182 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
General Obligations — 18.7% | |
Bensalem Township School District, PA, 3.00%, 2/15/21 | | $ | 20 | | | $ | 21,093 | |
Chicago, IL, 5.00%, 12/1/22 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,014,640 | |
Chicago, IL, 5.625%, 1/1/29 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,025,940 | |
Dallas, TX, 5.00%, 2/15/23 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,121,490 | |
Dallas, TX, 5.00%, 2/15/26 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,148,350 | |
Illinois, 0.00%, 8/1/18 | | | 275 | | | | 264,490 | |
Illinois, 0.00%, 8/1/20 | | | 265 | | | | 236,049 | |
Illinois, 0.00%, 8/1/21 | | | 200 | | | | 171,008 | |
Illinois, 5.00%, 1/1/19 | | | 120 | | | | 124,410 | |
Illinois, 5.00%, 1/1/20 | | | 750 | | | | 787,050 | |
Illinois, 5.00%, 2/1/22 | | | 330 | | | | 349,057 | |
Illinois, 5.00%, 6/1/22 | | | 265 | | | | 280,587 | |
Montgomery Township Board of Education, NJ, 5.00%, 4/1/21 | | | 200 | | | | 225,998 | |
Oyster Bay, NY, 3.50%, 2/2/18 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,008,940 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 7,779,102 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | |
Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Hospital — 22.9% | |
California Municipal Finance Authority, (NorthBay Healthcare Group), 5.00%, 11/1/23 | | $ | 450 | | | $ | 507,780 | |
California Public Finance Authority, (Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital), 5.00%, 10/15/22 | | | 150 | | | | 167,079 | |
California Public Finance Authority, (Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital), 5.00%, 10/15/23 | | | 175 | | | | 195,745 | |
Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority, (Hartford HealthCare Corp.), 1.483%, 7/1/20 (Put Date), 7/1/49(1) | | | 1,000 | | | | 996,030 | |
Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority, (Yale New Haven Health), 1.076%, 7/1/19 (Put Date), 7/1/49(1) | | | 1,000 | | | | 996,450 | |
Doylestown Hospital Authority, PA, (Doylestown Hospital), 5.00%, 7/1/20 | | | 1,155 | | | | 1,265,764 | |
Illinois Finance Authority, (Presence Health Network), 5.00%, 2/15/23 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,090,190 | |
Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, (Milford Regional Medical Center), 5.00%, 7/15/21 | | | 185 | | | | 205,874 | |
Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, (South Shore Hospital), 5.00%, 7/1/23 | | | 625 | | | | 724,681 | |
Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority, (Lowell General Hospital), 4.75%, 7/1/25 | | | 710 | | | | 754,517 | |
New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority, (Trinitas Regional Medical Center), 5.00%, 7/1/20(2) | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,095,740 | |
New York Dormitory Authority, (North Shore-Long Island Jewish Obligated Group), 1.42%, 5/1/18(1) | | | 500 | | | | 500,745 | |
Rhode Island Health and Educational Building Corp., (Care New England Health System), 5.00%, 9/1/19 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,049,200 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 9,549,795 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Housing — 4.0% | |
Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, (UMass Boston Student Housing), 5.00%, 10/1/21 | | $ | 1,000 | | | $ | 1,100,600 | |
Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, (UMass Boston Student Housing), 5.00%, 10/1/22 | | | 500 | | | | 556,345 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 1,656,945 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Industrial Development Revenue — 5.4% | |
Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, (Covanta Energy), (AMT), 4.875%, 11/1/27(3) | | $ | 500 | | | $ | 501,005 | |
New York Environmental Facilities Corp., (Casella Waste Systems, Inc.), (AMT), 3.75% to 12/2/19 (Put Date), 12/1/44(3) | | | 750 | | | | 738,053 | |
Whiting, IN, (BP Products North America, Inc.), (AMT), 1.66%, 12/2/19 (Put Date), 12/1/44(1) | | | 1,000 | | | | 997,120 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 2,236,178 | |
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| | 8 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Portfolio of Investments — continued
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Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Insured – Electric Utilities — 4.2% | |
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, (NPFG), 5.25%, 7/1/29 | | $ | 1,640 | | | $ | 1,735,710 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 1,735,710 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Insured – General Obligations — 10.5% | |
Boston, MA, (NPFG), 0.125%, 3/1/22 | | $ | 2,975 | | | $ | 2,749,614 | |
Chicago Board of Education, IL, (NPFG), 0.00%, 12/1/20 | | | 1,000 | | | | 896,670 | |
Hartford, CT, (AGM), 5.00%, 10/1/20 | | | 160 | | | | 174,757 | |
Paterson, NJ, (BAM), 5.00%, 1/15/26 | | | 500 | | | | 548,245 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 4,369,286 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Insured – Special Tax Revenue — 1.4% | |
Successor Agency to Rosemead Community Development Commission, CA, (BAM), 5.00%, 10/1/21 | | $ | 500 | | | $ | 566,775 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 566,775 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Senior Living / Life Care — 9.5% | |
Brookhaven Local Development Corp., NY, (Jefferson’s Ferry), 5.00%, 11/1/19 | | $ | 325 | | | $ | 350,701 | |
Colorado Health Facilities Authority, (Christian Living Neighborhoods), 4.00%, 1/1/18 | | | 215 | | | | 217,047 | |
Colorado Health Facilities Authority, (Christian Living Neighborhoods), 4.00%, 1/1/19 | | | 200 | | | | 203,532 | |
Colorado Health Facilities Authority, (Christian Living Neighborhoods), 4.00%, 1/1/20 | | | 210 | | | | 214,076 | |
Colorado Health Facilities Authority, (Christian Living Neighborhoods), 4.00%, 1/1/21 | | | 300 | | | | 306,807 | |
Colorado Health Facilities Authority, (Christian Living Neighborhoods), 4.00%, 1/1/22 | | | 300 | | | | 307,227 | |
Colorado Health Facilities Authority, (Frasier Meadows Retirement Community), 5.00%, 5/15/22(2) | | | 250 | | | | 275,472 | |
Lancaster County Hospital Authority, PA, (Brethren Village), 5.00%, 7/1/22(2) | | | 920 | | | | 1,009,645 | |
Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, (Carleton-Willard Village), 5.25%, 12/1/25 | | | 275 | | | | 295,993 | |
Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, (Volunteers of America), 5.00%, 11/1/17(3) | | | 50 | | | | 50,421 | |
Tulsa County Industrial Authority, OK, (Montereau, Inc.), 5.00%, 11/15/23(2) | | | 230 | | | | 252,844 | |
Washington Housing Finance Commission, (Wesley Homes at Lea Hill), 3.20%, 7/1/21(3) | | | 500 | | | | 479,855 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 3,963,620 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | |
Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Special Tax Revenue — 3.3% | |
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NY, Dedicated Tax Revenue, 1.28%, 11/1/18 (Put Date), 11/1/28(1) | | $ | 500 | | | $ | 499,885 | |
South Village Community Development District, FL, 2.00%, 5/1/17 | | | 290 | | | | 290,212 | |
South Village Community Development District, FL, 2.00%, 5/1/18 | | | 295 | | | | 296,516 | |
South Village Community Development District, FL, 2.00%, 5/1/19 | | | 300 | | | | 301,590 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 1,388,203 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Student Loan — 1.3% | |
Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority, (AMT), 5.00%, 1/1/20 | | $ | 500 | | | $ | 537,560 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 537,560 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Transportation — 8.4% | |
Chicago, IL, (O’Hare International Airport), 5.00%, 1/1/21 | | $ | 100 | | | $ | 112,131 | |
Denver City and County, CO, Airport System Revenue, 1.409%, 11/15/19 (Put Date), 11/15/31(1) | | | 500 | | | | 500,665 | |
E-470 Public Highway Authority, CO, 1.708%, 9/1/21 (Put Date), 9/1/39(1) | | | 1,000 | | | | 999,000 | |
Love Field Airport Modernization Corp., TX, (AMT), 5.00%, 11/1/21 | | | 250 | | | | 282,795 | |
Maryland Economic Development Corp., (Purple Line Light Rail), (AMT), 5.00%, 3/31/24 | | | 1,000 | | | | 1,117,170 | |
Port of Portland, OR, (Portland International Airport), (AMT), 5.00%, 7/1/22 | | | 425 | | | | 487,896 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | $ | 3,499,657 | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Water and Sewer — 2.4% | |
California Department of Water Resources, (Central Valley Project), 1.21%, 12/1/17 (Put Date), 12/1/35(1) | | $ | 500 | | | $ | 499,905 | |
Riverside, CA, Water System Revenue, 1.54%, 1/15/20 (Put Date), 10/1/35(1) | | | 500 | | | | 500,000 | |
| |
| | | | | | $ | 999,905 | |
| |
| |
Total Tax-Exempt Municipal Securities — 101.7% (identified cost $41,379,839) | | | $ | 42,322,971 | |
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| | 9 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Portfolio of Investments — continued
| | | | | | | | |
Taxable Municipal Securities — 1.2% | |
| | |
| | | | | | | | |
Security | | Principal Amount (000’s omitted) | | | Value | |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Student Loan — 1.2% | |
Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority, 3.875%, 7/1/23 | | $ | 500 | | | $ | 494,915 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
Total Taxable Municipal Securities — 1.2% (identified cost $494,574) | | | $ | 494,915 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
Total Investments — 102.9% (identified cost $41,874,413) | | | $ | 42,817,886 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
Other Assets, Less Liabilities — (2.9)% | | | $ | (1,212,299 | ) |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
Net Assets — 100.0% | | | $ | 41,605,587 | |
| | | | | | | | |
The percentage shown for each investment category in the Portfolio of Investments is based on net assets.
At March 31, 2017, the concentration of the Fund’s investments in the various states and territories, determined as a percentage of net assets, is as follows:
| | | | |
Massachusetts | | | 24.7% | |
Illinois | | | 15.3% | |
Others, representing less than 10% individually | | | 62.9% | |
The Fund invests primarily in debt securities issued by municipalities. The ability of the issuers of the debt securities to meet their obligations may be affected by economic developments in a specific industry or municipality. In order to reduce the risk associated with such economic developments, at March 31, 2017, 15.6% of total investments are backed by bond insurance of various financial institutions and financial guaranty assurance agencies. The aggregate percentage insured by an individual financial institution or financial guaranty assurance agency ranged from 0.4% to 12.6% of total investments.
(1) | Variable rate security. The stated interest rate represents the rate in effect at March 31, 2017. |
(2) | When-issued security. |
(3) | Security exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. These securities may be sold in certain transactions in reliance on an exemption from registration (normally to qualified institutional buyers). At March 31, 2017, the aggregate value of these securities is $1,769,334 or 4.3% of the Fund’s net assets. |
Abbreviations:
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AGM | | – | | Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. |
AMT | | – | | Interest earned from these securities may be considered a tax preference item for purposes of the Federal Alternative Minimum Tax. |
BAM | | – | | Build America Mutual Assurance Co. |
NPFG | | – | | National Public Finance Guaranty Corp. |
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| | 10 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
| | | | |
Assets | | March 31, 2017 | |
Investments, at value (identified cost, $41,874,413) | | $ | 42,817,886 | |
Cash | | | 1,468,702 | |
Interest receivable | | | 297,774 | |
Receivable for investments sold | | | 116,615 | |
Receivable for Fund shares sold | | | 64,908 | |
Receivable from affiliate | | | 67,301 | |
Total assets | | $ | 44,833,186 | |
|
Liabilities | |
Payable for when-issued securities | | $ | 2,627,569 | |
Payable for Fund shares redeemed | | | 508,883 | |
Distributions payable | | | 8,427 | |
Payable to affiliates: | | | | |
Investment adviser fee | | | 13,786 | |
Distribution and service fees | | | 10,133 | |
Accrued expenses | | | 58,801 | |
Total liabilities | | $ | 3,227,599 | |
Net Assets | | $ | 41,605,587 | |
|
Sources of Net Assets | |
Paid-in capital | | $ | 41,696,906 | |
Accumulated net realized loss | | | (1,026,365 | ) |
Accumulated distributions in excess of net investment income | | | (8,427 | ) |
Net unrealized appreciation | | | 943,473 | |
Net Assets | | $ | 41,605,587 | |
| |
Class A Shares | | | | |
Net Assets | | $ | 24,526,188 | |
Shares Outstanding | | | 2,495,302 | |
Net Asset Value and Redemption Price Per Share | | | | |
(net assets ÷ shares of beneficial interest outstanding) | | $ | 9.83 | |
Maximum Offering Price Per Share | | | | |
(100 ÷ 97.75 of net asset value per share) | | $ | 10.06 | |
|
Class C Shares | |
Net Assets | | $ | 9,324,428 | |
Shares Outstanding | | | 990,445 | |
Net Asset Value and Offering Price Per Share* | | | | |
(net assets ÷ shares of beneficial interest outstanding) | | $ | 9.41 | |
|
Class I Shares | |
Net Assets | | $ | 7,754,971 | |
Shares Outstanding | | | 788,807 | |
Net Asset Value, Offering Price and Redemption Price Per Share | | | | |
(net assets ÷ shares of beneficial interest outstanding) | | $ | 9.83 | |
On sales of $100,000 or more ($50,000 or more for certain financial intermediaries, as disclosed in an appendix to the Fund’s prospectus), the offering price of Class A shares is reduced.
* | Redemption price per share is equal to the net asset value less any applicable contingent deferred sales charge. |
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| | 11 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Statement of Operations
| | | | |
Investment Income | | Year Ended March 31, 2017 | |
Interest | | $ | 1,710,790 | |
Total investment income | | $ | 1,710,790 | |
|
Expenses | |
Investment adviser fee | | $ | 208,036 | |
Distribution and service fees | | | | |
Class A | | | 44,513 | |
Class C | | | 86,315 | |
Trustees’ fees and expenses | | | 3,269 | |
Custodian fee | | | 26,798 | |
Transfer and dividend disbursing agent fees | | | 20,392 | |
Legal and accounting services | | | 59,390 | |
Printing and postage | | | 31,154 | |
Registration fees | | | 67,009 | |
Interest expense and fees | | | 6,929 | |
Miscellaneous | | | 19,039 | |
Total expenses | | $ | 572,844 | |
Deduct — | | | | |
Allocation of expenses to affiliate | | $ | 101,505 | |
Total expense reductions | | $ | 101,505 | |
| |
Net expenses | | $ | 471,339 | |
| |
Net investment income | | $ | 1,239,451 | |
|
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | |
Net realized gain (loss) — | | | | |
Investment transactions | | $ | 3,037,215 | |
Net realized gain | | $ | 3,037,215 | |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) — | | | | |
Investments | | $ | (4,141,926 | ) |
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | $ | (4,141,926 | ) |
| |
Net realized and unrealized loss | | $ | (1,104,711 | ) |
| |
Net increase in net assets from operations | | $ | 134,740 | |
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| | 12 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| | | | | | | | |
| | Year Ended March 31, | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 2017 | | | 2016 | |
From operations — | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income | | $ | 1,239,451 | | | $ | 1,606,273 | |
Net realized gain (loss) from investment transactions | | | 3,037,215 | | | | (21,742 | ) |
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) from investments | | | (4,141,926 | ) | | | 106,283 | |
Net increase in net assets from operations | | $ | 134,740 | | | $ | 1,690,814 | |
Distributions to shareholders — | | | | | | | | |
From net investment income | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | $ | (725,923 | ) | | $ | (980,272 | ) |
Class C | | | (162,008 | ) | | | (194,310 | ) |
Class I | | | (333,373 | ) | | | (413,733 | ) |
Total distributions to shareholders | | $ | (1,221,304 | ) | | $ | (1,588,315 | ) |
Transactions in shares of beneficial interest — | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from sale of shares | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | $ | 2,301,298 | | | $ | 3,398,382 | |
Class C | | | 1,252,313 | | | | 710,813 | |
Class I | | | 9,791,118 | | | | 5,278,141 | |
Net asset value of shares issued to shareholders in payment of distributions declared | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | | 635,894 | | | | 881,082 | |
Class C | | | 127,968 | | | | 153,990 | |
Class I | | | 90,896 | | | | 66,298 | |
Cost of shares redeemed | | | | | | | | |
Class A | | | (13,226,951 | ) | | | (11,912,332 | ) |
Class C | | | (2,235,414 | ) | | | (1,527,580 | ) |
Class I | | | (17,812,853 | ) | | | (3,165,393 | ) |
Net decrease in net assets from Fund share transactions | | $ | (19,075,731 | ) | | $ | (6,116,599 | ) |
| | |
Net decrease in net assets | | $ | (20,162,295 | ) | | $ | (6,014,100 | ) |
|
Net Assets | |
At beginning of year | | $ | 61,767,882 | | | $ | 67,781,982 | |
At end of year | | $ | 41,605,587 | | | $ | 61,767,882 | |
|
Accumulated distributions in excess of net investment income included in net assets | |
At end of year | | $ | (8,427 | ) | | $ | (11,830 | ) |
| | | | |
| | 13 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Financial Highlights
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Class A | |
| | Year Ended March 31, | |
| | 2017 | | | 2016 | | | 2015 | | | 2014 | | | 2013 | |
Net asset value — Beginning of year | | $ | 10.060 | | | $ | 10.030 | | | $ | 9.900 | | | $ | 10.270 | | | $ | 10.240 | |
| | | |
Income (Loss) From Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income(1) | | $ | 0.248 | | | $ | 0.264 | | | $ | 0.271 | | | $ | 0.289 | | | $ | 0.290 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | | (0.235 | ) | | | 0.027 | | | | 0.128 | | | | (0.372 | ) | | | 0.028 | |
| | | | | |
Total income (loss) from operations | | $ | 0.013 | | | $ | 0.291 | | | $ | 0.399 | | | $ | (0.083 | ) | | $ | 0.318 | |
| | | |
Less Distributions | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
From net investment income | | $ | (0.243 | ) | | $ | (0.261 | ) | | $ | (0.269 | ) | | $ | (0.287 | ) | | $ | (0.288 | ) |
| | | | | |
Total distributions | | $ | (0.243 | ) | | $ | (0.261 | ) | | $ | (0.269 | ) | | $ | (0.287 | ) | | $ | (0.288 | ) |
| | | | | |
Net asset value — End of year | | $ | 9.830 | | | $ | 10.060 | | | $ | 10.030 | | | $ | 9.900 | | | $ | 10.270 | |
| | | | | |
Total Return(2) | | | 0.13 | %(3) | | | 2.95 | % | | | 4.06 | % | | | (0.77 | )% | | | 3.13 | % |
| | | |
Ratios/Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of year (000’s omitted) | | $ | 24,526 | | | $ | 35,441 | | | $ | 43,069 | | | $ | 39,604 | | | $ | 42,208 | |
Ratios (as a percentage of average daily net assets): | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses(4) | | | 0.80 | %(3)(5) | | | 0.77 | % | | | 0.77 | % | | | 0.78 | % | | | 0.79 | % |
Net investment income | | | 2.48 | % | | | 2.65 | % | | | 2.71 | % | | | 2.91 | % | | �� | 2.80 | % |
Portfolio Turnover | | | 82 | % | | | 9 | % | | | 4 | % | | | 8 | % | | | 7 | % |
(1) | Computed using average shares outstanding. |
(2) | Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value with all distributions reinvested and do not reflect the effect of sales charges. |
(3) | The investment adviser and administrator reimbursed certain operating expenses (equal to 0.22% of average daily net assets for the year ended March 31, 2017). Absent this reimbursement, total return would be lower. |
(4) | Excludes the effect of custody fee credits, if any, of less than 0.005%. Effective September 1, 2015, custody fee credits, which were earned on cash deposit balances, were discontinued by the custodian. |
(5) | Includes interest expense of 0.01%. |
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| | 14 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
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Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Financial Highlights — continued
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Class C | |
| | Year Ended March 31, | |
| | 2017 | | | 2016 | | | 2015 | | | 2014 | | | 2013 | |
Net asset value — Beginning of year | | $ | 9.640 | | | $ | 9.610 | | | $ | 9.480 | | | $ | 9.840 | | | $ | 9.810 | |
| | | |
Income (Loss) From Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income(1) | | $ | 0.165 | | | $ | 0.181 | | | $ | 0.188 | | | $ | 0.206 | | | $ | 0.204 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | | (0.234 | ) | | | 0.027 | | | | 0.127 | | | | (0.362 | ) | | | 0.028 | |
| | | | | |
Total income (loss) from operations | | $ | (0.069 | ) | | $ | 0.208 | | | $ | 0.315 | | | $ | (0.156 | ) | | $ | 0.232 | |
| | | |
Less Distributions | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
From net investment income | | $ | (0.161 | ) | | $ | (0.178 | ) | | $ | (0.185 | ) | | $ | (0.204 | ) | | $ | (0.202 | ) |
| | | | | |
Total distributions | | $ | (0.161 | ) | | $ | (0.178 | ) | | $ | (0.185 | ) | | $ | (0.204 | ) | | $ | (0.202 | ) |
| | | | | |
Net asset value — End of year | | $ | 9.410 | | | $ | 9.640 | | | $ | 9.610 | | | $ | 9.480 | | | $ | 9.840 | |
| | | | | |
Total Return(2) | | | (0.73 | )%(3) | | | 2.20 | % | | | 3.34 | % | | | (1.57 | )% | | | 2.37 | % |
| | | |
Ratios/Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of year (000’s omitted) | | $ | 9,324 | | | $ | 10,396 | | | $ | 11,036 | | | $ | 11,152 | | | $ | 12,845 | |
Ratios (as a percentage of average daily net assets): | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses(4) | | | 1.55 | %(3)(5) | | | 1.52 | % | | | 1.52 | % | | | 1.53 | % | | | 1.54 | % |
Net investment income | | | 1.72 | % | | | 1.89 | % | | | 1.96 | % | | | 2.16 | % | | | 2.05 | % |
Portfolio Turnover | | | 82 | % | | | 9 | % | | | 4 | % | | | 8 | % | | | 7 | % |
(1) | Computed using average shares outstanding. |
(2) | Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value with all distributions reinvested and do not reflect the effect of sales charges. |
(3) | The investment adviser and administrator reimbursed certain operating expenses (equal to 0.24% of average daily net assets for the year ended March 31, 2017). Absent this reimbursement, total return would be lower. |
(4) | Excludes the effect of custody fee credits, if any, of less than 0.005%. Effective September 1, 2015, custody fee credits, which were earned on cash deposit balances, were discontinued by the custodian. |
(5) | Includes interest expense of 0.01%. |
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| | 15 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
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Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Financial Highlights — continued
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Class I | |
| | Year Ended March 31, | |
| | 2017 | | | 2016 | | | 2015 | | | 2014 | | | 2013 | |
Net asset value — Beginning of year | | $ | 10.060 | | | $ | 10.030 | | | $ | 9.900 | | | $ | 10.270 | | | $ | 10.240 | |
| | | |
Income (Loss) From Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income | | $ | 0.269 | (1) | | $ | 0.278 | (1) | | $ | 0.286 | (1) | | $ | 0.304 | (1) | | $ | 0.305 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | | (0.242 | ) | | | 0.027 | | | | 0.128 | | | | (0.372 | ) | | | 0.029 | |
| | | | | |
Total income (loss) from operations | | $ | 0.027 | | | $ | 0.305 | | | $ | 0.414 | | | $ | (0.068 | ) | | $ | 0.334 | |
| | | |
Less Distributions | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
From net investment income | | $ | (0.257 | ) | | $ | (0.275 | ) | | $ | (0.284 | ) | | $ | (0.302 | ) | | $ | (0.304 | ) |
| | | | | |
Total distributions | | $ | (0.257 | ) | | $ | (0.275 | ) | | $ | (0.284 | ) | | $ | (0.302 | ) | | $ | (0.304 | ) |
| | | | | |
Net asset value — End of year | | $ | 9.830 | | | $ | 10.060 | | | $ | 10.030 | | | $ | 9.900 | | | $ | 10.270 | |
| | | | | |
Total Return(2) | | | 0.27 | %(3) | | | 3.10 | % | | | 4.21 | % | | | (0.62 | )% | | | 3.28 | % |
| | | |
Ratios/Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of year (000’s omitted) | | $ | 7,755 | | | $ | 15,931 | | | $ | 13,677 | | | $ | 10,227 | | | $ | 10,587 | |
Ratios (as a percentage of average daily net assets): | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses(4) | | | 0.68 | %(3)(5) | | | 0.62 | % | | | 0.62 | % | | | 0.63 | % | | | 0.64 | % |
Net investment income | | | 2.68 | % | | | 2.79 | % | | | 2.85 | % | | | 3.07 | % | | | 2.93 | % |
Portfolio Turnover | | | 82 | % | | | 9 | % | | | 4 | % | | | 8 | % | | | 7 | % |
(1) | Computed using average shares outstanding. |
(2) | Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value with all distributions reinvested. |
(3) | The investment adviser and administrator reimbursed certain operating expenses (equal to 0.11% of average daily net assets for the year ended March 31, 2017). Absent this reimbursement, total return would be lower. |
(4) | Excludes the effect of custody fee credits, if any, of less than 0.005%. Effective September 1, 2015, custody fee credits, which were earned on cash deposit balances, were discontinued by the custodian. |
(5) | Includes interest expense of 0.01%. |
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| | 16 | | See Notes to Financial Statements. |
Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements
1 Significant Accounting Policies
Eaton Vance Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund (formerly, Eaton Vance Massachusetts Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund) (the Fund) is a diversified series of Eaton Vance Investment Trust (the Trust). The Trust is a Massachusetts business trust registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company. The Fund’s investment objective is to seek to maximize after-tax total return. Prior to November 14, 2016, the Fund’s investment objective was to provide current income exempt from regular federal income tax and Massachusetts state personal income taxes. As of November 14, 2016, the Fund also changed its principal investment strategy and adopted a policy of investing at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in municipal obligations that are exempt from regular federal income tax. In connection with these changes, the Fund is no longer required, under normal market conditions, to invest at least 80% of its net assets in municipal obligations that are exempt from Massachusetts state taxes. The Fund offers three classes of shares. Class A shares are generally sold subject to a sales charge imposed at time of purchase. Class C shares are sold at net asset value and are generally subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (see Note 5). Class I shares are sold at net asset value and are not subject to a sales charge. Each class represents a pro-rata interest in the Fund, but votes separately on class-specific matters and (as noted below) is subject to different expenses. Realized and unrealized gains and losses are allocated daily to each class of shares based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Net investment income, other than class-specific expenses, is allocated daily to each class of shares based upon the ratio of the value of each class’s paid shares to the total value of all paid shares. Each class of shares differs in its distribution plan and certain other class-specific expenses.
The following is a summary of significant accounting policies of the Fund. The policies are in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (U.S. GAAP). The Fund is an investment company and follows accounting and reporting guidance in the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946.
A Investment Valuation — The following methodologies are used to determine the market value or fair value of investments.
Debt Obligations. Debt obligations are generally valued on the basis of valuations provided by third party pricing services, as derived from such services’ pricing models. Inputs to the models may include, but are not limited to, reported trades, executable bid and asked prices, broker/dealer quotations, prices or yields of securities with similar characteristics, interest rates, anticipated prepayments, benchmark curves or information pertaining to the issuer, as well as industry and economic events. The pricing services may use a matrix approach, which considers information regarding securities with similar characteristics to determine the valuation for a security. Short-term obligations purchased with a remaining maturity of sixty days or less for which a valuation from a third party pricing service is not readily available may be valued at amortized cost, which approximates fair value.
Fair Valuation. Investments for which valuations or market quotations are not readily available or are deemed unreliable are valued at fair value using methods determined in good faith by or at the direction of the Trustees of the Fund in a manner that fairly reflects the security’s value, or the amount that the Fund might reasonably expect to receive for the security upon its current sale in the ordinary course. Each such determination is based on a consideration of relevant factors, which are likely to vary from one pricing context to another. These factors may include, but are not limited to, the type of security, the existence of any contractual restrictions on the security’s disposition, the price and extent of public trading in similar securities of the issuer or of comparable entities, quotations or relevant information obtained from broker/dealers or other market participants, information obtained from the issuer, analysts, and/or the appropriate stock exchange (for exchange-traded securities), an analysis of the entity’s financial condition, and an evaluation of the forces that influence the issuer and the market(s) in which the security is purchased and sold.
B Investment Transactions and Related Income — Investment transactions for financial statement purposes are accounted for on a trade date basis. Realized gains and losses on investments sold are determined on the basis of identified cost. Interest income is recorded on the basis of interest accrued, adjusted for amortization of premium or accretion of discount.
C Federal Taxes — The Fund’s policy is to comply with the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies and to distribute to shareholders each year substantially all of its taxable, if any, and tax-exempt net investment income, and all or substantially all of its net realized capital gains. Accordingly, no provision for federal income or excise tax is necessary. The Fund intends to satisfy conditions which will enable it to designate distributions from the interest income generated by its investments in non-taxable municipal securities, which are exempt from regular federal income tax when received by the Fund, as exempt-interest dividends. The portion of such interest, if any, earned on private activity bonds issued after August 7, 1986, may be considered a tax preference item to shareholders.
As of March 31, 2017, the Fund had no uncertain tax positions that would require financial statement recognition, de-recognition, or disclosure. The Fund files a U.S. federal income tax return annually after its fiscal year-end, which is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service for a period of three years from the date of filing.
D Expenses — The majority of expenses of the Trust are directly identifiable to an individual fund. Expenses which are not readily identifiable to a specific fund are allocated taking into consideration, among other things, the nature and type of expense and the relative size of the funds.
E Legal Fees — Legal fees and other related expenses incurred as part of negotiations of the terms and requirement of capital infusions, or that are expected to result in the restructuring of, or a plan of reorganization for, an investment are recorded as realized losses. Ongoing expenditures to protect or enhance an investment are treated as operating expenses.
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Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements — continued
F Use of Estimates — The preparation of the financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and expense during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
G Indemnifications — Under the Trust’s organizational documents, its officers and Trustees may be indemnified against certain liabilities and expenses arising out of the performance of their duties to the Fund. Under Massachusetts law, if certain conditions prevail, shareholders of a Massachusetts business trust (such as the Trust) could be deemed to have personal liability for the obligations of the Trust. However, the Trust’s Declaration of Trust contains an express disclaimer of liability on the part of Fund shareholders and the By-laws provide that the Trust shall assume the defense on behalf of any Fund shareholders. Moreover, the By-laws also provide for indemnification out of Fund property of any shareholder held personally liable solely by reason of being or having been a shareholder for all loss or expense arising from such liability. Additionally, in the normal course of business, the Fund enters into agreements with service providers that may contain indemnification clauses. The Fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Fund that have not yet occurred.
H When-Issued Securities and Delayed Delivery Transactions — The Fund may purchase or sell securities on a delayed delivery or when-issued basis. Payment and delivery may take place after the customary settlement period for that security. At the time the transaction is negotiated, the price of the security that will be delivered is fixed. The Fund maintains cash and/or security positions for these commitments such that sufficient liquid assets will be available to make payments upon settlement. Securities purchased on a delayed delivery or when-issued basis are marked-to-market daily and begin earning interest on settlement date. Losses may arise due to changes in the market value of the underlying securities or if the counterparty does not perform under the contract.
2 Distributions to Shareholders and Income Tax Information
The net investment income of the Fund is determined daily and substantially all of the net investment income so determined is declared as a dividend to shareholders of record at the time of declaration. Distributions are declared separately for each class of shares. Distributions are paid monthly. Distributions of realized capital gains (reduced by available capital loss carryforwards from prior years) are made at least annually. Shareholders may reinvest income and capital gain distributions in additional shares of the same class of the Fund at the net asset value as of the reinvestment date or, at the election of the shareholder, receive distributions in cash. Distributions to shareholders are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from U.S. GAAP. As required by U.S. GAAP, only distributions in excess of tax basis earnings and profits are reported in the financial statements as a return of capital. Permanent differences between book and tax accounting relating to distributions are reclassified to paid-in capital. For tax purposes, distributions from short-term capital gains are considered to be from ordinary income.
The tax character of distributions declared for the years ended March 31, 2017 and March 31, 2016 was as follows:
| | | | | | | | |
| | Year Ended March 31, | |
| | 2017 | | | 2016 | |
| | |
Distributions declared from: | | | | | | | | |
Tax-exempt income | | $ | 1,196,638 | | | $ | 1,566,142 | |
Ordinary income | | $ | 24,666 | | | $ | 22,173 | |
During the year ended March 31, 2017, accumulated net realized loss was decreased by $18,561, accumulated undistributed net investment income was decreased by $14,744 and paid-in capital was decreased by $3,817 due to differences between book and tax accounting, primarily for premium amortization, accretion of market discount and the tax treatment of distributions in excess of net tax-exempt income. These reclassifications had no effect on the net assets or net asset value per share of the Fund.
As of March 31, 2017, the components of distributable earnings (accumulated losses) on a tax basis were as follows:
| | | | |
Capital loss carryforwards | | $ | (1,091,766 | ) |
Net unrealized appreciation | | $ | 1,008,874 | |
Other temporary differences | | $ | (8,427 | ) |
The differences between components of distributable earnings (accumulated losses) on a tax basis and the amounts reflected in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities are primarily due to the timing of recognizing distributions to shareholders, premium amortization and accretion of market discount.
At March 31, 2017, the Fund, for federal income tax purposes, had capital loss carryforwards of $1,091,766 which would reduce its taxable income arising from future net realized gains on investment transactions, if any, to the extent permitted by the Internal Revenue Code, and thus would reduce the
Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements — continued
amount of distributions to shareholders, which would otherwise be necessary to relieve the Fund of any liability for federal income or excise tax. Such capital loss carryforwards will expire on March 31, 2018 ($656,441) and March 31, 2019 ($435,325) and their character is short-term. Under tax regulations, capital losses incurred in taxable years beginning after December 2010 are considered deferred capital losses and are treated as arising on the first day of the Fund’s next taxable year, retaining the same short-term or long-term character as when originally deferred. Deferred capital losses are required to be used prior to capital loss carryforwards, which carry an expiration date. As a result of this ordering rule, capital loss carryforwards may be more likely to expire unused.
During the year ended March 31, 2017, capital loss carryforwards of $1,371,891 were utilized to offset net realized gains by the Fund.
The cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments of the Fund at March 31, 2017, as determined on a federal income tax basis, were as follows:
| | | | |
| |
Aggregate cost | | $ | 41,809,012 | |
| |
Gross unrealized appreciation | | $ | 1,184,467 | |
Gross unrealized depreciation | | | (175,593 | ) |
| |
Net unrealized appreciation | | $ | 1,008,874 | |
3 Investment Adviser Fee and Other Transactions with Affiliates
The investment adviser fee is earned by Eaton Vance Management (EVM), as compensation for management and investment advisory services rendered to the Fund. The fee is computed at an annual rate of 0.40% of the Fund’s average daily net assets up to $1 billion, and at a reduced rate on daily net assets of $1 billion or more, and is payable monthly. Prior to November 14, 2016, the fee was based upon a percentage of average daily net assets plus a percentage of gross income (i.e., income other than gains from the sale of securities). The annual asset rate and daily income rate were 0.30% and 3.00%, respectively, when daily net assets were less than $500 million and at reduced rates when daily net assets were $500 million or more. For the year ended March 31, 2017, the investment adviser fee amounted to $208,036 or 0.40% of the Fund’s average daily net assets.
Effective November 14, 2016, EVM has agreed to reimburse the Fund’s expenses to the extent that total annual operating expenses (relating to ordinary operating expenses only and excluding such expenses as interest, taxes or litigation expenses) exceed 0.70%, 1.45% and 0.55% of the Fund’s average daily net assets for Class A, Class C and Class I, respectively. This agreement may be changed or terminated after July 31, 2018. Pursuant to this agreement, EVM was allocated $101,505 of the Fund’s operating expenses for the year ended March 31, 2017.
EVM serves as the administrator of the Fund, but receives no compensation. EVM provides sub-transfer agency and related services to the Fund pursuant to a Sub-Transfer Agency Support Services Agreement. For the year ended March 31, 2017, EVM earned $2,245 from the Fund pursuant to such agreement, which is included in transfer and dividend disbursing agent fees on the Statement of Operations. The Fund was informed that Eaton Vance Distributors, Inc. (EVD), an affiliate of EVM and the Fund’s principal underwriter, received $1,104 as its portion of the sales charge on sales of Class A shares for the year ended March 31, 2017. EVD also received distribution and service fees from Class A and Class C shares (see Note 4) and contingent deferred sales charges (see Note 5).
Trustees and officers of the Fund who are members of EVM’s or BMR’s organizations receive remuneration for their services to the Fund out of the investment adviser fee. Trustees of the Fund who are not affiliated with the investment adviser may elect to defer receipt of all or a percentage of their annual fees in accordance with the terms of the Trustees Deferred Compensation Plan. For the year ended March 31, 2017, no significant amounts have been deferred. Certain officers and Trustees of the Fund are officers of the above organizations.
4 Distribution Plans
The Fund has in effect a distribution plan for Class A shares (Class A Plan) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. Pursuant to the Class A Plan, the Fund pays EVD a distribution and service fee not exceeding 0.25% per annum of its average daily net assets attributable to Class A shares for distribution services and facilities provided to the Fund by EVD, as well as for personal services and/or the maintenance of shareholder accounts. The Trustees approved distribution and service fee payments equal to 0.15% per annum of the Fund’s average daily net assets attributable to Class A shares. Distribution and service fees paid or accrued to EVD for the year ended March 31, 2017 amounted to $44,513 for Class A shares.
The Fund also has in effect a distribution plan for Class C shares (Class C Plan) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. Pursuant to the Class C Plan, the Fund pays EVD amounts equal to 0.75% per annum of its average daily net assets attributable to Class C shares for providing ongoing distribution services and facilities to the Fund. For the year ended March 31, 2017, the Fund paid or accrued to EVD $71,929 for Class C shares.
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Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements — continued
Pursuant to the Class C Plan, the Fund also makes payments of service fees to EVD, financial intermediaries and other persons in amounts not exceeding 0.25% per annum of its average daily net assets attributable to that class. The Trustees approved service fee payments equal to 0.15% per annum of the Fund’s average daily net assets attributable to Class C shares. Service fees paid or accrued are for personal services and/or the maintenance of shareholder accounts. They are separate and distinct from the Class C sales commissions and distribution fees payable to EVD. Service fees paid or accrued for the year ended March 31, 2017 amounted to $14,386 for Class C shares.
Distribution and service fees are subject to the limitations contained in the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Rule 2341(d).
5 Contingent Deferred Sales Charges
A contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) of 1% generally is imposed on redemptions of Class C shares made within one year of purchase. Class A shares may be subject to a 1% CDSC if redeemed within eighteen months of purchase (depending on the circumstances of purchase). Generally, the CDSC is based upon the lower of the net asset value at date of redemption or date of purchase. No charge is levied on shares acquired by reinvestment of dividends or capital gain distributions. For the year ended March 31, 2017, the Fund was informed that EVD received approximately $1,000 and less than $100 of CDSCs paid by Class A and Class C shareholders, respectively.
6 Purchases and Sales of Investments
Purchases and sales of investments, other than short-term obligations, aggregated $43,669,830 and $59,862,387, respectively, for the year ended March 31, 2017.
7 Shares of Beneficial Interest
The Fund’s Declaration of Trust permits the Trustees to issue an unlimited number of full and fractional shares of beneficial interest (without par value). Such shares may be issued in a number of different series (such as the Fund) and classes. Transactions in Fund shares were as follows:
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| | Year Ended March 31, | |
Class A | | 2017 | | | 2016 | |
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Sales | | | 233,350 | | | | 339,748 | |
Issued to shareholders electing to receive payments of distributions in Fund shares | | | 63,632 | | | | 88,404 | |
Redemptions | | | (1,323,475 | ) | | | (1,199,533 | ) |
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Net decrease | | | (1,026,493 | ) | | | (771,381 | ) |
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Class C | | 2017 | | | 2016 | |
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Sales | | | 132,616 | | | | 74,495 | |
Issued to shareholders electing to receive payments of distributions in Fund shares | | | 13,380 | | | | 16,125 | |
Redemptions | | | (234,053 | ) | | | (160,653 | ) |
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Net decrease | | | (88,057 | ) | | | (70,033 | ) |
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Class I | | 2017 | | | 2016 | |
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Sales | | | 985,119 | | | | 530,828 | |
Issued to shareholders electing to receive payments of distributions in Fund shares | | | 9,116 | | | | 6,651 | |
Redemptions | | | (1,788,613 | ) | | | (317,701 | ) |
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Net increase (decrease) | | | (794,378 | ) | | | 219,778 | |
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Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements — continued
8 Line of Credit
The Fund participates with other portfolios and funds managed by EVM and its affiliates in a $625 million unsecured line of credit agreement with a group of banks, which is in effect through September 1, 2017. Borrowings are made by the Fund solely to facilitate the handling of unusual and/or unanticipated short-term cash requirements. Interest is charged to the Fund based on its borrowings at an amount above either the Eurodollar rate or Federal Funds rate. In addition, a fee computed at an annual rate of 0.15% on the daily unused portion of the line of credit is allocated among the participating portfolios and funds at the end of each quarter. Because the line of credit is not available exclusively to the Fund, it may be unable to borrow some or all of its requested amounts at any particular time. Average borrowings and the average interest rate (excluding fees) for the year ended March 31, 2017 were $492,877 and 1.41%, respectively.
9 Fair Value Measurements
Under generally accepted accounting principles for fair value measurements, a three-tier hierarchy to prioritize the assumptions, referred to as inputs, is used in valuation techniques to measure fair value. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized in the three broad levels listed below.
• | | Level 1 – quoted prices in active markets for identical investments |
• | | Level 2 – other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.) |
• | | Level 3 – significant unobservable inputs (including a fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments) |
In cases where the inputs used to measure fair value fall in different levels of the fair value hierarchy, the level disclosed is determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
At March 31, 2017, the hierarchy of inputs used in valuing the Fund’s investments, which are carried at value, were as follows:
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Asset Description | | Level 1 | | | Level 2 | | | Level 3 | | | Total | |
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Tax-Exempt Municipal Securities | | $ | — | | | $ | 42,322,971 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 42,322,971 | |
Taxable Municipal Securities | | | — | | | | 494,915 | | | | — | | | | 494,915 | |
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Total Investments | | $ | — | | | $ | 42,817,886 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 42,817,886 | |
The Fund held no investments or other financial instruments as of March 31, 2016 whose fair value was determined using Level 3 inputs. At March 31, 2017, there were no investments transferred between Level 1 and Level 2 during the year then ended.
10 Name Change
Effective November 14, 2016, the name of Eaton Vance Massachusetts Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund was changed to Eaton Vance Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund and its investment objective and principal investment objective were changed as disclosed in Note 1.
Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Trustees of Eaton Vance Investment Trust and Shareholders of Eaton Vance Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund:
We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of Eaton Vance Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund (formerly, Eaton Vance Massachusetts Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund) (the “Fund”) (one of of the funds constituting Eaton Vance Investment Trust), including the portfolio of investments, as of March 31, 2017, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. The Fund is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Fund’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of March 31, 2017, by correspondence with the custodian and brokers; where replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, such financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Eaton
Vance Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund as of March 31, 2017, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
Boston, Massachusetts
May 19, 2017
Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Federal Tax Information (Unaudited)
The Form 1099-DIV you receive in February 2018 will show the tax status of all distributions paid to your account in calendar year 2017. Shareholders are advised to consult their own tax adviser with respect to the tax consequences of their investment in the Fund. As required by the Internal Revenue Code and/or regulations, shareholders must be notified regarding exempt-interest dividends.
Exempt-Interest Dividends. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017, the Fund designates 97.98% of distributions from net investment income as an exempt-interest dividend.
Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Special Meeting of Shareholders (Unaudited)
The Fund held a Special Meeting of Shareholders on Thursday, October 20, 2016 for the following purposes: (1) to amend the Fund’s policies to provide as follows: under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in municipal obligations that are exempt from regular federal income tax; and (2) to approve an Investment Advisory and Administrative Agreement between Eaton Vance Management and the Fund, pursuant to which EVM will serve as investment adviser and administrator to the Fund. The shareholder meeting results are as follows:
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| | Number of Shares | |
| | For | | | Against | | | Abstain | |
Proposal One | | | 2,567,380 | | | | 274,541 | | | | 191,087 | |
Proposal Two | | | 2,580,202 | | | | 211,071 | | | | 241,735 | |
Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Management and Organization
Fund Management. The Trustees of Eaton Vance Investment Trust (the Trust) are responsible for the overall management and supervision of the Trust’s affairs. The Trustees and officers of the Trust are listed below. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the last five years. Trustees and officers of the Trust hold indefinite terms of office. The “Noninterested Trustees” consist of those Trustees who are not “interested persons” of the Trust, as that term is defined under the 1940 Act. The business address of each Trustee and officer is Two International Place, Boston, Massachusetts 02110. As used below, “EVC” refers to Eaton Vance Corp., “EV” refers to Eaton Vance, Inc., “EVM” refers to Eaton Vance Management, “BMR” refers to Boston Management and Research, “EVMI” refers to Eaton Vance Management (International) Limited and “EVD” refers to Eaton Vance Distributors, Inc. EVC and EV are the corporate parent and trustee, respectively, of EVM and BMR. EVMI is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of EVC. EVD is the Fund’s principal underwriter and a wholly-owned subsidiary of EVC. Each officer affiliated with Eaton Vance may hold a position with other Eaton Vance affiliates that is comparable to his or her position with EVM listed below. Each Trustee oversees 177 portfolios in the Eaton Vance Complex (including all master and feeder funds in a master feeder structure). Each officer serves as an officer of certain other Eaton Vance funds. Each Trustee and officer serves until his or her successor is elected.
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Name and Year of Birth | | Position(s) with the Trust | | Trustee Since(1) | | Principal Occupation(s) and Directorships During Past Five Years and Other Relevant Experience |
Interested Trustee |
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Thomas E. Faust Jr. 1958 | | Trustee | | 2007 | | Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of EVC, Director and President of EV, Chief Executive Officer and President of EVM and BMR, and Director of EVD and EVMI. Trustee and/or officer of 177 registered investment companies. Mr. Faust is an interested person because of his positions with EVM, BMR, EVD, EVMI, EVC and EV, which are affiliates of the Trust. Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) Director of EVC and Hexavest Inc. (investment management firm). |
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Noninterested Trustees |
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Scott E. Eston 1956 | | Trustee | | 2011 | | Private investor. Formerly held various positions at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo and Co., LLC (investment management firm) (1997-2009), including Chief Operating Officer (2002-2009), Chief Financial Officer (1997-2009) and Chairman of the Executive Committee (2002-2008); President and Principal Executive Officer, GMO Trust (open-end registered investment company) (2006-2009). Former Partner, Coopers and Lybrand LLP (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) (a registered public accounting firm) (1987-1997). Mr. Eston has apprised the Board of Trustees that he intends to retire as a Trustee of all Eaton Vance funds effective September 30, 2017. Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) None. |
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Mark R. Fetting(3) 1954 | | Trustee | | 2016 | | Private investor. Formerly held various positions at Legg Mason, Inc. (investment management firm) (2000-2012), including President, Chief Executive Officer, Director and Chairman (2008-2012), Senior Executive Vice President (2004-2008) and Executive Vice President (2001-2004). Formerly, President of Legg Mason family of funds (2001-2008). Formerly, Division President and Senior Officer of Prudential Financial Group, Inc. and related companies (investment management firm) (1991-2000). Directorships in the Last Five Years. Formerly, Director and Chairman of Legg Mason, Inc. (2008-2012); Director/Trustee and Chairman of Legg Mason family of funds (14 funds) (2008-2012); and Director/Trustee of the Royce family of funds (35 funds) (2001-2012). |
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Cynthia E. Frost 1961 | | Trustee | | 2014 | | Private investor. Formerly, Chief Investment Officer of Brown University (university endowment) (2000-2012); Portfolio Strategist for Duke Management Company (university endowment manager) (1995-2000); Managing Director, Cambridge Associates (investment consulting company) (1989-1995); Consultant, Bain and Company (management consulting firm) (1987-1989); Senior Equity Analyst, BA Investment Management Company (1983-1985). Directorships in the Last Five Years. None. |
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George J. Gorman 1952 | | Trustee | | 2014 | | Principal at George J. Gorman LLC (consulting firm). Formerly, Senior Partner at Ernst & Young LLP (a registered public accounting firm) (1974-2009). Directorships in the Last Five Years. Formerly, Trustee of the BofA Funds Series Trust (11 funds) (2011-2014) and of the Ashore Funds (9 funds) (2010-2014). |
Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Management and Organization — continued
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Name and Year of Birth | | Position(s) with the Trust | | Trustee Since(1) | | Principal Occupation(s) and Directorships During Past Five Years and Other Relevant Experience |
Noninterested Trustees (continued) |
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Valerie A. Mosley 1960 | | Trustee | | 2014 | | Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of Valdo Ventures (a consulting and investment firm). Former Partner and Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Investment Strategist at Wellington Management Company, LLP (investment management firm) (1992-2012). Former Chief Investment Officer, PG Corbin Asset Management (1990-1992). Formerly worked in institutional corporate bond sales at Kidder Peabody (1986-1990). Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) Director of Dyne Capital, Inc. (mortgage REIT) (since 2013). |
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William H. Park 1947 | | Chairperson of the Board and Trustee | | 2016 (Chairperson) 2003 (Trustee) | | Private investor. Formerly, Consultant (management and transactional) (2012-2014). Formerly, Chief Financial Officer, Avon Group L.P. (investment management firm) (2010-2011). Formerly, Vice Chairman, Commercial Industrial Finance Corp. (specialty finance company) (2006-2010). Formerly, President and Chief Executive Officer, Prizm Capital Management, LLC (investment management firm) (2002-2005). Formerly, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, United Asset Management Corporation (investment management firm) (1982-2001). Formerly, Senior Manager, Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) (a registered public accounting firm) (1972-1981). Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) None. |
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Helen Frame Peters 1948 | | Trustee | | 2008 | | Professor of Finance, Carroll School of Management, Boston College. Formerly, Dean, Carroll School of Management, Boston College (2000-2002). Formerly, Chief Investment Officer, Fixed Income, Scudder Kemper Investments (investment management firm) (1998-1999). Formerly, Chief Investment Officer, Equity and Fixed Income, Colonial Management Associates (investment management firm) (1991-1998). Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) Formerly, Director of BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc. (wholesale club retailer) (2004-2011). Formerly, Trustee of SPDR Index Shares Funds and SPDR Series Trust (exchange traded funds) (2000-2009). Formerly, Director of Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston (a bank for banks) (2007-2009). |
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Susan J. Sutherland 1957 | | Trustee | | 2015 | | Private investor. Formerly, Associate, Counsel and Partner at Sadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (law firm) (1982-2013). Directorships in the Last Five Years. Formerly, Director of Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. (global provider of customized insurance and reinsurance products) (2013-2015). |
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Harriett Tee Taggart 1948 | | Trustee | | 2011 | | Managing Director, Taggart Associates (a professional practice firm). Formerly, Partner and Senior Vice President, Wellington Management Company, LLP (investment management firm) (1983-2006). Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) Director of Albemarle Corporation (chemicals manufacturer) (since 2007) and The Hanover Group (specialty property and casualty insurance company) (since 2009). Formerly, Director of Lubrizol Corporation (specialty chemicals) (2007-2011). |
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Ralph F. Verni 1943 | | Trustee | | 2005 | | Consultant and private investor. Formerly, Chief Investment Officer (1982-1992), Chief Financial Officer (1988-1990) and Director (1982-1992), New England Life. Formerly, Chairperson, New England Mutual Funds (1982-1992). Formerly, President and Chief Executive Officer, State Street Management & Research (1992-2000). Formerly, Chairperson, State Street Research Mutual Funds (1992-2000). Formerly, Director, W.P. Carey, LLC (1998-2004) and First Pioneer Farm Credit Corp. (financial services cooperative) (2002-2006). Consistent with the Trustee retirement policy, Mr. Verni is currently expected to retire as a Trustee of all Eaton Vance funds effective July 1, 2017. Directorships in the Last Five Years.(2) None. |
Eaton Vance
Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund
March 31, 2017
Management and Organization — continued
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Name and Year of Birth | | Position(s) with the Trust | | Trustee Since(1) | | Principal Occupation(s) and Directorships During Past Five Years and Other Relevant Experience |
Noninterested Trustees (continued) |
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Scott E. Wennerholm(3) 1959 | | Trustee | | 2016 | | Consultant at GF Parish Group (executive recruiting firm). Trustee at Wheelock College (postsecondary institution) (since 2012). Formerly, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President at BNY Mellon Asset Management (investment management firm) (2005-2011). Formerly, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Natixis Global Asset Management (investment management firm) (1997-2004). Formerly, Vice President at Fidelity Investments Institutional Services (investment management firm) (1994-1997). Directorships in the Last Five Years. None. |
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Principal Officers who are not Trustees |
Name and Year of Birth | | Position(s) with the Trust | | Officer Since(4) | | Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years |
Payson F. Swaffield 1956 | | President | | 2003 | | Vice President and Chief Income Investment Officer of EVM and BMR. |
Maureen A. Gemma 1960 | | Vice President, Secretary and Chief Legal Officer | | 2005 | | Vice President of EVM and BMR. Also Vice President of Calvert Research and Management (“CRM”). |
James F. Kirchner 1967 | | Treasurer | | 2007 | | Vice President of EVM and BMR. Also Vice President of CRM. |
Paul M. O’Neil 1953 | | Chief Compliance Officer | | 2004 | | Vice President of EVM and BMR. |
(1) | Year first appointed to serve as Trustee for a fund in the Eaton Vance family of funds. Each Trustee has served continuously since appointment unless indicated otherwise. |
(2) | During their respective tenures, the Trustees (except for Mmes. Frost and Sutherland and Messrs. Fetting, Gorman and Wennerholm) also served as Board members of one or more of the following funds (which operated in the years noted): eUnitsTM 2 Year U.S. Market Participation Trust: Upside to Cap / Buffered Downside (launched in 2012 and terminated in 2014); eUnitsTM 2 Year U.S. Market Participation Trust II: Upside to Cap / Buffered Downside (launched in 2012 and terminated in 2014); and Eaton Vance National Municipal Income Trust (launched in 1998 and terminated in 2009). However, Ms. Mosley did not serve as a Board member of eUnitsTM 2 Year U.S. Market Participation Trust: Upside to Cap / Buffered Downside (launched in 2012 and terminated in 2014). |
(3) | Messrs. Fetting and Wennerholm began serving as Trustees effective September 1, 2016. |
(4) | Year first elected to serve as officer of a fund in the Eaton Vance family of funds when the officer has served continuously. Otherwise, year of most recent election as an officer of a fund in the Eaton Vance family of funds. Titles may have changed since initial election. |
The SAI for the Fund includes additional information about the Trustees and officers of the Fund and can be obtained without charge on Eaton Vance’s website at www.eatonvance.com or by calling 1-800-262-1122.
Eaton Vance Funds
IMPORTANT NOTICES
Privacy. The Eaton Vance organization is committed to ensuring your financial privacy. Each of the financial institutions identified below has in effect the following policy (“Privacy Policy”) with respect to nonpublic personal information about its customers:
• | | Only such information received from you, through application forms or otherwise, and information about your Eaton Vance fund transactions will be collected. This may include information such as name, address, social security number, tax status, account balances and transactions. |
• | | None of such information about you (or former customers) will be disclosed to anyone, except as permitted by law (which includes disclosure to employees necessary to service your account). In the normal course of servicing a customer’s account, Eaton Vance may share information with unaffiliated third parties that perform various required services such as transfer agents, custodians and broker-dealers. |
• | | Policies and procedures (including physical, electronic and procedural safeguards) are in place that are designed to protect the confidentiality of such information. |
• | | We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy at any time upon proper notification to you. Customers may want to review our Privacy Policy periodically for changes by accessing the link on our homepage: www.eatonvance.com. |
Our pledge of privacy applies to the following entities within the Eaton Vance organization: the Eaton Vance Family of Funds, Eaton Vance Management, Eaton Vance Investment Counsel, Eaton Vance Distributors, Inc., Eaton Vance Trust Company, Eaton Vance Management (International) Limited, Eaton Vance Management’s Real Estate Investment Group and Boston Management and Research. In addition, our Privacy Policy applies only to those Eaton Vance customers who are individuals and who have a direct relationship with us. If a customer’s account (i.e., fund shares) is held in the name of a third-party financial advisor/broker-dealer, it is likely that only such advisor’s privacy policies apply to the customer. This notice supersedes all previously issued privacy disclosures. For more information about Eaton Vance’s Privacy Policy, please call 1-800-262-1122.
Delivery of Shareholder Documents. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) permits funds to deliver only one copy of shareholder documents, including prospectuses, proxy statements and shareholder reports, to fund investors with multiple accounts at the same residential or post office box address. This practice is often called “householding” and it helps eliminate duplicate mailings to shareholders. Eaton Vance, or your financial advisor, may household the mailing of your documents indefinitely unless you instruct Eaton Vance, or your financial advisor, otherwise. If you would prefer that your Eaton Vance documents not be householded, please contact Eaton Vance at 1-800-262-1122, or contact your financial advisor. Your instructions that householding not apply to delivery of your Eaton Vance documents will typically be effective within 30 days of receipt by Eaton Vance or your financial advisor. Separate statements will be generated for each separate account and will be householded as described above.
Portfolio Holdings. Each Eaton Vance Fund and its underlying Portfolio(s) (if applicable) will file a schedule of portfolio holdings on Form N-Q with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year. The Form N-Q will be available on the Eaton Vance website at www.eatonvance.com, by calling Eaton Vance at 1-800-262-1122 or in the EDGAR database on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Form N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s public reference room in Washington, D.C. (call 1-800-732-0330 for information on the operation of the public reference room).
Proxy Voting. From time to time, funds are required to vote proxies related to the securities held by the funds. The Eaton Vance Funds or their underlying Portfolios (if applicable) vote proxies according to a set of policies and procedures approved by the Funds’ and Portfolios’ Boards. You may obtain a description of these policies and procedures and information on how the Funds or Portfolios voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30, without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-262-1122 and by accessing the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
Investment Adviser and Administrator
Eaton Vance Management
Two International Place
Boston, MA 02110
Principal Underwriter*
Eaton Vance Distributors, Inc.
Two International Place
Boston, MA 02110
(617) 482-8260
Custodian
State Street Bank and Trust Company
State Street Financial Center, One Lincoln Street
Boston, MA 02111
Transfer Agent
BNY Mellon Investment Servicing (US) Inc.
Attn: Eaton Vance Funds
P.O. Box 9653
Providence, RI 02940-9653
(800) 262-1122
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Deloitte & Touche LLP
200 Berkeley Street
Boston, MA 02116-5022
Fund Offices
Two International Place
Boston, MA 02110
* | FINRA BrokerCheck. Investors may check the background of their Investment Professional by contacting the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). FINRA BrokerCheck is a free tool to help investors check the professional background of current and former FINRA-registered securities firms and brokers. FINRA BrokerCheck is available by calling 1-800-289-9999 and at www.FINRA.org. The FINRA BrokerCheck brochure describing this program is available to investors at www.FINRA.org. |
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Item 2. Code of Ethics
The registrant has adopted a code of ethics applicable to its Principal Executive Officer, Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer. The registrant undertakes to provide a copy of such code of ethics to any person upon request, without charge, by calling 1-800-262-1122. The registrant has amended the code of ethics as described in Form N-CSR during the period covered by this report to make clarifying changes consistent with Rule 21F-17 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The registrant has not granted any waiver, including an implicit waiver, from a provision of the code of ethics as described in Form N-CSR during the period covered by this report.
Item 3. Audit Committee Financial Expert
The registrant’s Board has designated William H. Park, an independent trustee, as its audit committee financial expert. Mr. Park is a certified public accountant who is a private investor. Previously, he served as a consultant, as the Chief Financial Officer of Aveon Group, L.P. (an investment management firm), as the Vice Chairman of Commercial Industrial Finance Corp. (specialty finance company), as President and Chief Executive Officer of Prizm Capital Management, LLC (investment management firm), as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of United Asset Management Corporation (an institutional investment management firm) and as a Senior Manager at Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) (an independent registered public accounting firm).
Item 4. Principal Accountant Fees and Services
(a)-(d)
Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund, Eaton Vance Short Duration Municipal Opportunities (formerly, Eaton Vance Massachusetts Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund), Eaton Vance National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund and Eaton Vance New York Municipal Opportunities Fund (formerly, Eaton Vance New York Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund) (the “Fund(s)”) are the series of Eaton Vance Investment Trust (the “Trust”), a Massachusetts business trust, which, including the Funds, contains a total of 4 series (the “Series”). The Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end management investment company.
Rule 2-01(c)(1)(ii)(A) of Regulation S-X (the “Loan Rule”) prohibits an accounting firm, such as the Trust’s principal accountant, Deloitte & Touche LLP (“D&T”), from having certain financial relationships with their audit clients and affiliated entities. Specifically, the Loan Rule provides, in relevant part, that an accounting firm generally would not be independent if it or a “covered person” of the accounting firm (within the meaning of applicable SEC rules relating to auditor independence) receives a loan from a lender that is a “record or beneficial owner of more than ten percent of the audit client’s equity securities.” Based on information provided to the Audit Committee of the Board of Trustees (the “Audit Committee”) of the Eaton Vance family of funds by D&T, certain relationships between D&T and its affiliates (“Deloitte Entities”) and one or more lenders who are record owners of shares of one or more funds within the Eaton Vance family of funds (the “Funds”) implicate the Loan Rule, calling into question D&T’s independence with respect to the Funds. The Funds are providing this disclosure to explain the facts and circumstances as well as D&T’s conclusions concerning D&T’s objectivity and impartiality with respect to the audits of the Funds notwithstanding the existence of one or more breaches of the Loan Rule.
On June 20, 2016, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued no-action relief to another mutual fund complex (see Fidelity Management & Research Company et al., No-Action Letter (June 20, 2016) (the “No-Action Letter”)) related to an auditor independence issue arising under the Loan Rule. In the No-Action Letter, the SEC indicated that it would not recommend enforcement action against the fund group if the auditor is not in compliance with the Loan Rule provided that: (1) the auditor has complied with PCAOB Rule 3526(b)(1) and 3526(b)(2); (2) the auditor’s non-compliance under the Loan Rule is with respect to certain lending relationships; and (3) notwithstanding such non-compliance, the auditor has concluded that it is objective and impartial with respect to the issues encompassed within its engagement as auditor of the funds. The SEC has indicated that the no-action relief will expire 18 months from its issuance.
Based on information provided by D&T to the Audit Committee, the requirements of the No-Action Letter appear to be met with respect to D&T’s lending relationships described above. Among other things, D&T has advised the Audit Committee of its conclusion that the consequences of the breach of the Loan Rule have been satisfactorily addressed, that D&T’s objectivity and impartiality in the planning and conduct of the audits of the Fund’s financial statements has not been compromised and that, notwithstanding the breach, D&T is in a position to continue as the auditor for the Funds and D&T does not believe any actions need to be taken with respect to previously issued reports by D&T. D&T has advised the Audit Committee that these conclusions were based in part on its consideration of the No-Action Letter and other relevant information communicated to the Audit Committee.
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The following tables present the aggregate fees billed to each Fund for the Fund’s respective fiscal years ended March 31, 2016 and March 31, 2017 by D&T for professional services rendered for the audit of the Fund’s annual financial statements and fees billed for other services rendered by D&T during those periods.
Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Municipal Income Fund
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Fiscal Years Ended | | 03/31/16 | | | 03/31/17 | |
Audit Fees | | $ | 32,125 | | | $ | 32,750 | |
Audit-Related Fees(1) | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | |
Tax Fees(2) | | $ | 8,807 | | | $ | 10,145 | |
All Other Fees(3) | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | |
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Total | | $ | 40,932 | | | $ | 42,895 | |
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Eaton Vance Short Duration Municipal Opportunities (formerly, Eaton Vance Massachusetts Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund)
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Fiscal Years Ended | | 03/31/16 | | | 03/31/17 | |
Audit Fees | | $ | 33,630 | | | $ | 33,930 | |
Audit-Related Fees(1) | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | |
Tax Fees(2) | | $ | 8,807 | | | $ | 8,895 | |
All Other Fees(3) | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | |
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Total | | $ | 42,437 | | | $ | 42,825 | |
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Eaton Vance National Limited Maturity Municipal Income Fund
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Fiscal Years Ended | | 03/31/16 | | | 03/31/17 | |
Audit Fees | | $ | 58,925 | | | $ | 59,850 | |
Audit-Related Fees(1) | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | |
Tax Fees(2) | | $ | 11,309 | | | $ | 11,422 | |
All Other Fees(3) | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | |
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Total | | $ | 70,234 | | | $ | 71,272 | |
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Eaton Vance New York Municipal Opportunities Fund
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Fiscal Years Ended | | 03/31/16 | | | 03/31/17 | |
Audit Fees | | $ | 37,280 | | | $ | 37,680 | |
Audit-Related Fees(1) | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | |
Tax Fees(2) | | $ | 9,013 | | | $ | 9,103 | |
All Other Fees(3) | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | |
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Total | | $ | 46,293 | | | $ | 46,783 | |
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(1) | Audit-related fees consist of the aggregate fees billed for assurance and related services that are reasonably related to the performance of the audit of financial statements and are not reported under the category of audit fees. . |
(2) | Tax fees consist of the aggregate fees billed for professional services rendered by the principal accountant relating to tax compliance, tax advice, and tax planning and specifically include fees for tax return preparation and other related tax compliance/planning matters. |
(3) | All other fees consist of the aggregate fees billed for products and services provided by the principal accountant other than audit, audit-related, and tax services. |
The Funds comprised all of the series of the Trust at 3/31/2017, and have the same fiscal year end (March 31). The following table presents the aggregate audit, audit-related, tax, and other fees billed to all of the Series in the Trust by D&T for the last two fiscal years of each Series.
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Fiscal Years Ended | | 03/31/16 | | | 03/31/17 | |
Audit Fees | | $ | 161,960 | | | $ | 164,210 | |
Audit-Related Fees(1) | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | |
Tax Fees(2) | | $ | 37,936 | | | $ | 39,565 | |
All Other Fees(3) | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | |
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Total | | $ | 199,896 | | | $ | 203,775 | |
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(1) | Audit-related fees consist of the aggregate fees billed for assurance and related services that are reasonably related to the performance of the audit of financial statements and are not reported under the category of audit fees. |
(2) | Tax fees consist of the aggregate fees billed for professional services rendered by the principal accountant relating to tax compliance, tax advice, and tax planning and specifically include fees for tax return preparation. |
(3) | All other fees consist of the aggregate fees billed for products and services provided by the principal accountant other than audit, audit-related, and tax services. |
(e)(1) The Trust’s audit committee has adopted policies and procedures relating to the pre-approval of services provided by the Trust’s principal accountant (the “Pre-Approval Policies”). The Pre-Approval Policies establish a framework intended to assist the audit committee in the proper discharge of its pre-approval responsibilities. As a general matter, the Pre-Approval Policies (i) specify certain types of audit, audit-related, tax, and other services determined to be pre-approved by the audit committee; and (ii) delineate specific procedures governing the mechanics of the pre-approval process, including the approval and monitoring of audit and non-audit service fees. Unless a service is specifically pre-approved under the Pre-Approval Policies, it must be separately pre-approved by the audit committee.
The Pre-Approval Policies and the types of audit and non-audit services pre-approved therein must be reviewed and ratified by the Trust’s audit committee at least annually. The Trust’s audit committee maintains full responsibility for the appointment, compensation, and oversight of the work of the registrant’s principal accountant.
(e)(2) No services described in paragraphs (b)-(d) above were approved by the Trust’s audit committee pursuant to the “de minimis exception” set forth in Rule 2-01(c)(7)(i)(C) of Regulation S-X.
(f) Not applicable.
(g) The following table presents (i) the aggregate non-audit fees (i.e., fees for audit-related, tax, and other services) billed for services rendered to all of the Funds in the Trust by D&T for the last two fiscal years of each Fund; and (ii) the aggregate non-audit fees (i.e., fees for audit-related, tax, and other services) billed for services rendered to the Eaton Vance organization by D&T for the last two fiscal years of each Fund.
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Fiscal Years Ended | | 03/31/16 | | | 03/31/17 | |
Registrant(1) | | $ | 37,936 | | | $ | 39,565 | |
Eaton Vance(2) | | $ | 56,434 | | | $ | 46,000 | |
(1) | Includes all of the Funds of the Trust. |
(2) | The investment adviser to the Funds, as well as any of its affiliates that provide ongoing services to the Funds, are subsidiaries of Eaton Vance Corp. |
(h) The Trust’s audit committee has considered whether the provision by the Trust’s principal accountant of non-audit services to the Trust’s investment adviser and any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the adviser that provides ongoing services to the registrant that were not pre-approved pursuant to Rule 2-01(c)(7)(ii) of Regulation S-X is compatible with maintaining the principal accountant’s independence.
Item 5. Audit Committee of Listed Registrants
Not applicable.
Item 6. Schedule of Investments
Please see schedule of investments contained in the Report to Stockholders included under Item 1 of this Form N-CSR.
Item 7. Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies
Not applicable.
Item 8. Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies
Not applicable.
Item 9. Purchases of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Company and Affiliated Purchasers
Not applicable.
Item 10. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
No material changes.
Item 11. Controls and Procedures
(a) It is the conclusion of the registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer that the effectiveness of the registrant’s current disclosure controls and procedures (such disclosure controls and procedures having been evaluated within 90 days of the date of this filing) provide reasonable assurance that the information required to be disclosed by the registrant has been recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time period specified in the Commission’s rules and forms and that the information required to be disclosed by the registrant has been accumulated and communicated to the registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer in order to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
(b) There have been no changes in the registrant’s internal controls over financial reporting during the second fiscal quarter of the period covered by this report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
Item 12. Exhibits
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(a)(1) | | Registrant’s Code of Ethics. |
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(a)(2)(i) | | Treasurer’s Section 302 certification. |
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(a)(2)(ii) | | President’s Section 302 certification. |
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(b) | | Combined Section 906 certification. |
Signatures
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Eaton Vance Investment Trust
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By: | | /s/ Payson F. Swaffield |
| | Payson F. Swaffield |
| | President |
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Date: | | May 23, 2017 |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
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By: | | /s/ James F. Kirchner |
| | James F. Kirchner |
| | Treasurer |
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Date: | | May 23, 2017 |
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By: | | /s/ Payson F. Swaffield |
| | Payson F. Swaffield |
| | President |
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Date: | | May 23, 2017 |