EASDX — Eaton Vance Short Duration Government Income Fund

EASDX Fund Overview

EASDX — Eaton Vance Short Duration Government Income Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Eaton Vance Mutual Funds Trust, categorised as Long Securitized (MBS/ABS/CMBS) Bond. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

• Type: US mutual fund
• Manager: Eaton Vance Mutual Funds Trust
• Category: Long Securitized (MBS/ABS/CMBS) Bond
• Assets under management: $3.17B
• 1-year return: 5.3%
• Ticker: EASDX
• SEC CIK: 0000745463
• SEC series ID: S000005290
• Share class ID: C000227652

EASDX Investment Objective and Strategy

Eaton Vance Short Duration Government Income Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Eaton Vance Mutual Funds Trust.

Investment objective

The Funds investment objective is to seek total return.

Principal investment strategy

Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 90% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in any securities issued, backed or otherwise guaranteed by the U.S. Government or its agencies or instrumentalities (the 90% Policy). These securities include, but are not limited to, mortgage-backed securities (MBS) including collateralized mortgage obligations, issued, backed or otherwise guaranteed by the U.S. Government or its agencies or instrumentalities, Treasuries and agency bonds. The Fund may invest up to 10% of its net assets in other income securities, including, but not limited to, non-agency MBS and asset-backed securities, corporate bonds, loans and money market securities. The Fund many invest in securities in any ratings category, including securities rated below investment grade or in unrated securities considered to be of comparable quality by the investment adviser (commonly referred to as junk bonds).

The Fund may also invest in pooled investment vehicles. Pooled investment vehicles are exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds. The Funds dollar-weighted average duration will not exceed three years. The Fund may invest in stripped securities which may be issued by the U.S. Government, its agencies or instrumentalities, and may also be issued by private originators or investors, including depository institutions, banks, investment banks and special purpose subsidiaries of these entities. The Fund may also engage in derivative transactions. Transactions in derivative instruments may include: the purchase or sale of futures contracts on securities, indices or other financial instruments or currencies; options on futures contracts; exchange-traded and over-the-counter options on securities, indices, currencies and other instruments; and interest rate, credit default, inflation and total return swaps.

The Fund may take short or long positions with regard to certain Markit indices, which are synthetic total return swap indices. The Fund may use interest rate swaps and options on interest rate swaps for risk management purposes and not as a speculative investment and would typically use interest rate swaps to shorten the average interest rate reset time of its holdings. The Fund may engage in other derivatives to seek return, to hedge against fluctuations in securities prices, interest rates or currency exchange rates, to change the duration of obligations held by the Fund, to manage certain investment risks and/or as a substitute for the purchase or sale of securities or currencies. There is no stated limit on the Funds use of derivatives. The Fund may engage in borrowing and active management techniques.

The Fund is authorized to borrow to acquire additional investments when it believes that the interest payments and other costs with respect to such borrowings will be exceeded by the anticipated total return on such investments. The Fund may enter into forward commitments to purchase generic MBS, with the total amount of such outstanding commitments not to exceed 10% of the Funds total net assets. Such forward commitments may be entered into for purposes of investment leverage. The Fund may enter into forward commitments to sell generic MBS, with the total amount of such outstanding commitments not to exceed 25% of the Funds total net assets. Separately, the Fund may also enter into duration neutral generic MBS coupon swaps, agency swaps, and term swaps (pair trades) by entering into forward commitments to both purchase and sell generic MBS of equivalent duration.

Each leg of such paired outstanding forward commitments on generic MBS may not exceed 25% of the Funds total net assets. In addition, the Fund at times may enter into mortgage dollar rolls. The Fund may engage in short sales of securities and in repurchase and reverse repurchase agreements. The portfolio manager seeks to purchase securities believed to be the best relative value with regard to price, yield, and expected total return in relation to other available instruments. Investment decisions are primarily made on the basis of fundamental research and relative value. The portfolio manager may sell a security when he believes the security no longer represents the best relative value and the fundamental research or cash needs dictate.

EASDX Holdings

Top 10 holdings of Eaton Vance Short Duration Government Income Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

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EASDX Portfolio Allocation

Asset-class allocation of Eaton Vance Short Duration Government Income Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

EASDX Performance

Total returns for EASDX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

EASDX Risk Information

Risk metrics for EASDX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

• 1-year volatility (annualised): 2.0%

EASDX Costs and Fees

EASDX costs about $89 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 0.89%
• Gross expense ratio: 0.89%
• Portfolio turnover: 580%
• Brokerage commissions: 0.00 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

EASDX Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2026-04, Eaton Vance Short Duration Government Income Fund had net inflows of $477.23M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

EASDX Debt Constituents

Largest debt holdings of Eaton Vance Short Duration Government Income Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

EASDX Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official Eaton Vance Short Duration Government Income Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-02-26
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-02-26
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-02-27
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-09-29
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-06-24
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-03-31
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-01-13
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-01-14

Related Funds

Other Long Securitized (MBS/ABS/CMBS) Bond funds tracked on ABC INVEST:

• PIMCO Income Fund (PONAX)
• Bridge Builder Core Plus Bond Fund (BBCPX)
• iShares MBS ETF (MBB)
• Guggenheim Total Return Bond Fund (GIBAX)
• Janus Henderson AAA CLO ETF (JAAA)

Data Sources

ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.