Eaton Vance Senior Floating Rate Trust Reports Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter and Full Year Ended October 31, 2012
January 15, 2013 at 10:15 pm IST
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Eaton Vance Senior Floating Rate Trust reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended October 31, 2012. For the quarter, the company's net investment income was $10,333,000 or $0.305 per share compared to $8,516,000 or $0.252 per share a year ago. Net realized and unrealized gains were $8,807,000 or $0.257 per share compared to net realized and unrealized losses were $14,017,000 or $0.407 per share a year ago. Net asset value per share was $15.63 compared to $14.91 a year ago. Net increase in net assets from operations was $19,080,000 or $0.561 per share compared to net decrease in net assets from operations was $5,556,000 or $0.157 per share a year ago.
For the year, the company's net investment income was $37,073,000 or $1.097 per share compared to $34,231,000 or $1.014 per share a year ago. Net realized and unrealized gains were $23,116,000 or $0.681 per share compared to net realized and unrealized losses were $732,000 or $0.013 per share. Net increase in net assets from operations was $59,971,000 or $1.772 per share compared to $33,208,000 or $0.992 per share a year ago.
Eaton Vance Senior Floating-Rate Trust (the Trust) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Trustâs primary investment objective is to provide a high level of current income. The Trust may, as a secondary objective, also seek the preservation of capital to the extent consistent with its primary objective. The Trust holds investments in a range of sectors, such as software, health care providers and services, machinery, chemicals, commercial services and supplies, information technology (IT) services, capital markets, hotels, restaurants and leisure, specialty retail and professional services. The Trust invests in floating-rate loans, asset-backed securities, corporate bonds and others. It has investments in the United States, Europe (excluding the United Kingdom), Northern America (excluding the United States), the United Kingdom and Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan). The Trustâs investment adviser is Eaton Vance Management.
EATON VANCE SENIOR FLOATING-RATE TRUST 
