EBFAX — Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Advantage Fund
Data updated: 2026-09-29
EBFAX — Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Advantage Fund. United States Blend / Core Equity · $3.78B AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
EBFAX Fund Overview
EBFAX — Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Advantage Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Eaton Vance Mutual Funds Trust, categorised as United States Blend / Core Equity. 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: United States Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $3.78B
- Ticker: EBFAX
- SEC CIK: 0000745463
- SEC series ID: S000019373
- Share class ID: C000053810
EBFAX Investment Objective and Strategy
Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Advantage 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 provide a high level of current income.
Principal investment strategy
Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in income producing floating rate loans and other floating rate debt securities. The Fund invests primarily in senior floating rate loans of domestic and foreign borrowers (Senior Loans). Senior Loans typically are secured with specific collateral and have a claim on the assets and/or stock of the borrower that is senior to subordinated debtholders and stockholders of the borrower. Loans usually are of below investment grade quality and have below investment grade credit ratings, which ratings are associated with securities having high risk, speculative characteristics (sometimes referred to as junk). The Fund also may borrow from banks for the purpose of acquiring additional income-producing investments (referred to as leverage).
The Fund may also invest in secured and unsecured subordinated loans, second lien loans and subordinated bridge loans (Junior Loans), other floating rate debt securities, fixed-income debt obligations and money market instruments. Other floating rate debt securities, fixed-income debt securities and money market instruments may include: bonds, notes and debentures issued by corporations; debt securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or one of its agencies or instrumentalities; and commercial paper. Money market instruments with a remaining maturity of less than 60 days are deemed floating rate debt securities. Senior Loans and Junior Loans are referred to together herein as loans. The Fund may invest up to 35% of its net assets in foreign Senior Loans. Foreign Senior Loans must be denominated in U.S.
dollars, euros, British pounds, Swiss francs, Canadian dollars, or Australian dollars. The Fund may engage in derivative transactions (such as futures contracts and options thereon, foreign currency exchange contracts and other currency hedging strategies, and interest rate swaps) to seek to hedge against fluctuations in currency exchange rates and interest rates. There is no stated limit on the Funds use of derivatives. The investment adviser seeks to maintain broad borrower and industry diversification among the Funds loans. When selecting loans, the investment adviser seeks to implement a systematic risk-weighted approach that utilizes fundamental analysis of risk/return characteristics. Loans may be sold, if in the opinion of the investment adviser, the risk-return profile deteriorates or to pursue more attractive investment opportunities.
In managing the Fund, the investment adviser seeks to invest in a portfolio of loans that it believes will be less volatile over time than the general loan market. Preservation of capital is considered when consistent with the Funds investment objective. The Fund currently invests its assets in the Portfolio, a separate registered investment company with the same investment objective and policies as the Fund.
EBFAX Holdings
Top 1 holdings of Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Advantage Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Senior Debt Portfolio (MA) | 100.64% |
EBFAX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Advantage Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 100.6% |
EBFAX Costs and Fees
EBFAX costs about $175 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.75%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.75%
- Portfolio turnover: 42%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.00 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
EBFAX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-04, Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Advantage Fund had net outflows of $1.08B, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-04 | −$128.11M |
| 2026-03 | −$131.81M |
| 2026-02 | −$125.62M |
| 2026-01 | −$58.44M |
| 2025-12 | −$190.38M |
| 2025-11 | −$101.88M |
EBFAX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Advantage Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
EBFAX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Advantage Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-02-26
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-02-26
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2025-03-03
- 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
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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.