Company: ETJ
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000940394-25-000250
Chunk: 25

Company: Eaton Vance Risk-Managed Diversified Equity Income Fund
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 25
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 ABSTAIN will be counted
towards establishing a quorum, as will broker non-votes. (Broker non-votes are shares for which (i) the beneficial owner has not voted
and (ii) the broker holding the shares does not have discretionary authority to vote on the particular matter.) Accordingly, abstentions
and broker non-votes, which will be treated as shares that are present at the Annual Meeting but which have not been voted, will assist
a Fund in obtaining a quorum but will have no effect on the outcome of Proposal 1.

A quorum requires the presence, in person or by proxy, of a majority
of the outstanding shares of a Fund entitled to vote. In the event that a quorum is not present at the Annual Meeting, or if a quorum
is present at the Annual Meeting but sufficient votes by the shareholders of a Fund FOR the Proposal set forth in the Notice of this Annual
Meeting are not received by that time on April 9, 2025, the persons named as proxies may propose one or more adjournments of the Annual
Meeting to permit further solicitation of proxies. Any such adjournment will require the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority
of the shares of that Fund present in person or by proxy at the session of the Annual Meeting to be adjourned. The persons named as proxies
will vote FOR such adjournment those proxies which they are entitled to vote FOR any Trustee nominee. They will vote against any such
adjournment those proxies that voted “WITHHOLD AUTHORITY FOR ALL NOMINEES” (sometimes referred to as abstentions). The costs
of any such additional solicitation and of any adjourned session will be borne by the Funds.

Pursuant to each Fund’s By-Laws, with respect to any election
of Trustees other than a contested election, a nominee must receive the affirmative vote of a plurality of votes cast at any meeting at
which a quorum is present to be elected. A plurality means that the Trustee nominee receiving the greatest number of votes will be elected.
With respect to a contested election, a nominee must receive the affirmative vote of a majority of a Fund’s shares outstanding and
entitled to vote with respect to such nominee in order to be elected. The By-Laws define a “contested election” as any election
of Trustees in which the number of persons validly nominated for election as Trustees with respect to a given class or classes of Fund
shares