Company: ETY
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: N-2ASR
Source: 0001193125-25-026876
Chunk: 12

Company: Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Diversified Equity Income Fund
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: N-2ASR
Chunk 12
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 the instrument). Although the Fund generally writes stock index call options with respect to only a portion of its common stock portfolio value, the Fund may in market circumstances deemed appropriate by the Adviser write covered index call options on up to 100% of the value of its assets. To avoid being subject to the “straddle rules” under federal income tax law, the Fund intends to generally limit the overlap between its stock holdings (and any subset thereof) and each index on which it has outstanding options positions to less than 70% on an ongoing basis. Under the “straddle rules,” “offsetting positions with respect to personal property” generally are considered to be straddles. In

general, investment positions will be offsetting if there is a substantial diminution in the risk of loss from holding one position by reason of holding one or more other positions. The Fund expects that the index call options it writes will not be considered straddles because its stock holdings will be sufficiently dissimilar from the components of each index on which it has open call options positions under applicable guidance established by the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”). Under certain circumstances, however, the Fund may enter into options transactions or certain other investments that may constitute positions in a straddle. See “U.S. Federal Income Tax Matters.” The Fund’s index option strategy is designed to produce current cash flow from options premiums and to moderate the volatility of the Fund’s returns. This index option strategy is of a hedging nature, and is not designed to speculate on equity market performance. The Adviser believes that the Fund’s index option strategy moderates the volatility of the Fund’s returns because the option premiums received will help to mitigate the impact of downward price movements in the stocks held by the Fund, while the Fund’s obligations under index calls written constrains the Fund’s ability to participate in upward price movements in portfolio stocks. The Fund expects normally to sell index call options on a portion of its common stock portfolio value. The Adviser does not intend to sell index call options representing amounts, in the aggregate, greater than the value of the Fund’s common stock portfolio (i.e., take a “naked” position). The Adviser generally sells index call options that are exchange-listed and “European style,” meaning that the options may only be exercised on the expiration date of the option. Exchange-traded index options are typically settled in cash and provide that the holder of the option has the right to receive an amount of cash determined by the excess of the exercise-settlement value of