Company: BDJ
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001193125-25-049575
Chunk: 107

Company: BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 107
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 common stock will be eligible for: (i) the reduced U.S. federal income tax rate for qualified dividend income and long-term capital gains for individuals or (ii) the Dividends Received Deduction for corporate shareholders of the Trust. In selecting investments for the Trust, the Advisors combine fundamental research with a top-down strategy, analyzing 70 sub-industry groups on an ongoing basis. The Advisors seek to identify companies that it believes have the potential to outperform the market. The Advisors’ investment techniques for the Trust include assessing industry structure and dynamics, evaluating growth catalysts on an industry and individual company basis and assessing a company’s valuation relative to the broad market and its respective industry group. The Advisors seek to invest in companies that it believes have sizeable market opportunities, global, regional or local competitive advantages, sound business models and financial strength, proven management teams and compelling relative and absolute valuations. Leverage: The Trust may, but does not currently intend to, incur indebtedness or issue preferred shares for investment purposes. The Trust may enter into derivative securities transactions that have leverage embedded in them. Investment Objectives, Policies and Risks 179 Investment Objectives, Policies and Risks (continued) Investment Objectives and Policies (continued) BlackRock Enhanced International Dividend Trust (BGY) The Trust’s primary investment objective is to seek current income and current gains, with a secondary objective of long-term capital appreciation. “Current gains” means gains realized from the Trust’s option strategy (described below) pursuant to which the Trust seeks to enhance monthly distributions to investors. The Trust’s investment objectives may be changed without shareholder approval. The Trust seeks to achieve its objectives by investing primarily in equity securities issued by companies of any market capitalization located in countries throughout the world and utilizing an option writing (selling) strategy to enhance current gains. Under normal circumstances, the Trust invests at least 80% of its net assets in dividend-paying equity securities issued by non-U.S. companies of any market capitalization, but intends to invest primarily in securities of large capitalization companies. The Trust’s investments in derivatives will be counted toward the Trust’s 80% policy to the extent that they provide investment exposure to the securities included within that policy or to one or more market risk factors associated with such securities. The Trust may invest up to 20% of its total assets in equity securities of issuers located in the United States. The Trust may invest up to 50% of its total assets in equity securities of issuers located in emerging market countries