No insider purchase over the last 90 days. The latest, by QUINTON KEITH, was filed 27 Dec 2021.
Every trade that managers of Eaton Vance Senior Income Trust disclose to SEC (Form 4) is tracked on this page. The company sits in the Finance & Banking sector. Over the twelve months to 23 October 2026, 3 filings were filed, from 3 insiders.
No open-market purchase or sale appears among the filings, only grants, plan transactions and other operations. Grants and option exercises follow pay plans set in advance, so they reveal less about an insider's own view than a purchase made with personal money.
For context, the typical company on the same exchange (median of 2,023 companies) published 41 filings over the same period, against 3 filings here. Looking back to 2016, when coverage begins, insiders filed 40 purchases and 3 sales.
Insider buying of Eaton Vance Senior Income Trust has been absent for the past year.
For comparison within the same sector, see the insider buying recorded at ASR Nederland N.V. and Avarda Bank AB. This summary is built from SEC (Form 4) disclosures alone and does not predict where the share price will go.
Entry is the close on the day after publication, the first price a reader could act on. Prices in the listing currency. Past moves are not a forecast.
This score ranks the purchase within its own market. A position size is suggested only on the venues of the backtested strategy universe; elsewhere, signals stay on watch. Not investment advice.
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Eaton Vance Senior Income Trust (NYSE: EVF) is a U.S.-listed closed-end fund organized as a Massachusetts business trust and registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940. Its operating base is in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, within the Eaton Vance / Morgan Stanley Investment Management platform. In practical terms, EVF is not an operating industrial business but a publicly traded credit fund focused on floating-rate income.
The fund’s stated objective is high current income. To pursue that goal, it invests primarily in senior secured floating-rate loans, commonly referred to as senior loans. These loans sit high in a borrower’s capital structure and are typically secured by collateral, while their coupons reset with short-term benchmark rates. EVF’s mandate also allows limited allocations to other income-producing securities, including corporate debt, below-investment-grade credit, and in some cases warrants or equity securities received as part of loan packages. This mix is designed to support yield generation, diversification, and some degree of protection against rising interest rates because of the floating-rate nature of the assets.
EVF has a long operating history in the leveraged loan and income-oriented closed-end fund space. Eaton Vance indicates a performance inception date of October 30, 1998, underscoring more than two decades of track record in floating-rate credit strategies. Portfolio management is handled by Eaton Vance’s Floating-Rate Loan team, which focuses on buy/sell decisions, portfolio construction, and risk management. For investors, the appeal is generally regular cash distribution and exposure to senior secured credit rather than aggressive capital appreciation.
Competitively, EVF sits in a crowded U.S. closed-end fund universe where investors compare yield levels, portfolio credit quality, leverage usage, and the market price discount or premium to net asset value. Eaton Vance remains a well-established name in floating-rate lending strategies, which supports the trust’s market credibility and brand recognition, although outcomes still depend heavily on credit conditions, default trends, and secondary-market liquidity.
Recent developments include an April 2026 announcement that the boards of several Eaton Vance closed-end funds, including EVF, authorized voluntary tender offers for up to 100% of outstanding auction preferred shares at 98% of liquidation preference plus accrued unpaid dividends. The fund’s official materials also show ongoing active portfolio management and current distribution-rate disclosures. For French-speaking investors, EVF is therefore a NYSE-listed exposure to U.S. senior loan markets in the United States, with an income-first profile and moderate sensitivity to interest-rate dynamics.
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