UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM N-Q

 

QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED
MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANY

 

Investment Company Act file number

811-21470

 

 

Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Income Fund

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

 

The Eaton Vance Building, 255 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts

 

02109

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip code)

 

Alan R. Dynner, Esq.
Eaton Vance Management, 255 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

Registrant's telephone number, including area code:

(617) 482-8260

 

 

Date of fiscal year end:

October 31*

 

 

 

 

Date of reporting period:

September 30, 2006

 

 


* The fiscal year end for Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Income Fund was recently changed from December 31 to October 31.

 



 

Item 1. Schedule of Investments

 



Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Income Fund                                           as of September 30, 2006

PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited)

Common Stocks — 117.0%

Security

 

Shares

 

Value

 

Beverages — 1.8%

 

 

 

 

 

Diageo PLC

 

2,000,000

 

$

35,235,231

 

 

 

 

 

$

35,235,231

 

Capital Markets — 2.1%

 

 

 

 

 

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

 

200,000

 

15,644,000

 

UBS AG

 

400,000

 

23,843,927

 

 

 

 

 

$

39,487,927

 

Commercial Banks — 15.9%

 

 

 

 

 

Allied Irish Banks PLC

 

1,000,000

 

26,597,130

 

Bank of Montreal

 

400,000

 

24,308,000

 

Bank of Nova Scotia

 

1,150,000

 

49,530,500

 

Barclays PLC

 

2,000,000

 

25,162,008

 

BNP Paribas SA

 

250,000

 

26,838,837

 

Credit Agricole SA

 

100,000

 

4,380,054

 

HBOS PLC

 

750,000

 

14,795,600

 

HSBC Holdings PLC

 

2,500,000

 

45,499,181

 

Lloyds TSB Group PLC

 

1,500,000

 

15,130,555

 

Societe Generale

 

300,000

 

47,612,655

 

Wells Fargo & Co.

 

700,000

 

25,326,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

305,180,520

 

Communications Equipment — 0.2%

 

 

 

 

 

Nokia Oyj ADR

 

200,000

 

3,938,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

3,938,000

 

Construction & Engineering — 1.4%

 

 

 

 

 

Vinci SA

 

250,000

 

27,764,809

 

 

 

 

 

$

27,764,809

 

Construction Materials — 0.7%

 

 

 

 

 

Cemex SA de CV ADR (1)

 

422,668

 

12,713,853

 

 

 

 

 

$

12,713,853

 

Distributors — 0.9%

 

 

 

 

 

Genuine Parts Co.

 

400,000

 

17,252,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

17,252,000

 

Diversified Financial Services — 2.6%

 

 

 

 

 

Bank of America Corp.

 

400,000

 

21,428,000

 

Citigroup, Inc.

 

400,000

 

19,868,000

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

 

200,000

 

9,392,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

50,688,000

 

Diversified Telecommunication Services — 6.8%

 

 

 

 

 

AT&T, Inc.

 

1,400,000

 

45,584,000

 

BCE, Inc.

 

1,098,000

 

29,744,820

 

1




 

 

 

Bell Aliant Regional Communications Income Fund (1)(2)

 

87,000

 

$

2,725,452

 

BellSouth Corp.

 

600,000

 

25,650,000

 

BT Group PLC

 

4,000,000

 

20,046,787

 

Windstream Corp.

 

465,267

 

6,136,872

 

 

 

 

 

$

129,887,931

 

Electric Utilities — 16.1%

 

 

 

 

 

E.ON AG

 

500,000

 

59,233,780

 

Edison International

 

650,000

 

27,066,000

 

Endesa, SA

 

150,000

 

6,377,333

 

Enel SPA

 

500,000

 

4,559,420

 

Entergy Corp.

 

500,000

 

39,115,000

 

Exelon Corp.

 

660,000

 

39,956,400

 

FPL Group, Inc.

 

700,000

 

31,500,000

 

Scottish and Southern Energy PLC

 

2,500,000

 

61,434,447

 

Scottish Power PLC (2)

 

1,825,396

 

22,181,894

 

Southern Co.

 

500,000

 

17,230,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

308,654,274

 

Electrical Equipment — 3.0%

 

 

 

 

 

Cooper Industries, Ltd., Class A

 

225,000

 

19,174,500

 

Emerson Electric Co.

 

450,000

 

37,737,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

56,911,500

 

Food Products — 1.8%

 

 

 

 

 

Nestle SA

 

100,000

 

34,747,554

 

 

 

 

 

$

34,747,554

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure — 1.6%

 

 

 

 

 

McDonald’s Corp.

 

800,000

 

31,296,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

31,296,000

 

Household Durables — 0.6%

 

 

 

 

 

Stanley Works

 

250,000

 

12,462,500

 

 

 

 

 

$

12,462,500

 

Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders — 2.4%

 

 

 

 

 

Drax Group PLC

 

1,300,000

 

20,258,584

 

TXU Corp.

 

400,200

 

25,020,504

 

 

 

 

 

$

45,279,088

 

Industrial Conglomerates — 2.2%

 

 

 

 

 

General Electric Co.

 

450,000

 

15,885,000

 

Siemens AG

 

300,000

 

26,076,771

 

 

 

 

 

$

41,961,771

 

Insurance — 5.9%

 

 

 

 

 

American International Group, Inc.

 

200,000

 

13,252,000

 

AON Corp.

 

400,000

 

13,548,000

 

Lincoln National Corp.

 

400,000

 

24,832,000

 

2




 

 

 

Prudential Financial, Inc.

 

465,000

 

$

35,456,250

 

St. Paul Travelers Cos., Inc.

 

300,000

 

14,067,000

 

Willis Group Holdings Ltd.

 

300,000

 

11,400,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

112,555,250

 

Machinery — 1.7%

 

 

 

 

 

Deere & Co.

 

400,000

 

33,564,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

33,564,000

 

Media — 0.4%

 

 

 

 

 

Publishing & Broadcasting, Ltd.

 

100,000

 

1,389,023

 

Reed Elsevier NV

 

100,000

 

1,665,683

 

Wolters Kluwer NV

 

200,000

 

5,204,841

 

 

 

 

 

$

8,259,547

 

Metals & Mining — 3.7%

 

 

 

 

 

Fording Canadian Coal Trust

 

750,000

 

19,897,500

 

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc., Class B

 

350,000

 

18,641,000

 

Mittal Steel Co. NV

 

400,000

 

13,890,690

 

Southern Copper Corp.

 

200,000

 

18,500,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

70,929,190

 

Multi-Utilities — 7.4%

 

 

 

 

 

Ameren Corp.

 

268,000

 

14,147,720

 

RWE AG

 

650,000

 

59,814,829

 

United Utilities PLC

 

1,471,400

 

19,380,427

 

Veolia Environnement

 

813,234

 

48,953,964

 

 

 

 

 

$

142,296,940

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels — 15.3%

 

 

 

 

 

BP PLC ADR

 

800,000

 

52,464,000

 

Chevron Corp.

 

650,000

 

42,159,000

 

ENI SPA

 

1,280,000

 

37,994,109

 

Marathon Oil Corp.

 

550,000

 

42,295,000

 

Neste Oil Oyj

 

500,000

 

14,566,045

 

Statoil ASA

 

2,200,000

 

52,452,422

 

Total SA ADR

 

800,000

 

52,752,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

294,682,576

 

Pharmaceuticals — 8.4%

 

 

 

 

 

AstraZeneca PLC

 

400,000

 

24,924,672

 

GlaxoSmithKline PLC

 

1,500,000

 

39,798,652

 

Johnson & Johnson

 

400,000

 

25,976,000

 

Sanofi-Aventis ADR

 

400,000

 

17,788,000

 

Wyeth

 

1,050,000

 

53,382,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

161,869,324

 

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) — 5.4%

 

 

 

 

 

AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

 

200,000

 

24,080,000

 

Boston Properties, Inc.

 

170,000

 

17,567,800

 

3




 

 

 

Developers Diversified Realty Corp.

 

375,000

 

$

20,910,000

 

Simon Property Group, Inc.

 

260,000

 

23,561,200

 

SL Green Realty Corp.

 

150,000

 

16,755,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

102,874,000

 

Road & Rail — 1.1%

 

 

 

 

 

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.

 

300,000

 

22,032,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

22,032,000

 

Specialty Retail — 0.4%

 

 

 

 

 

Kingfisher PLC

 

1,633,984

 

7,488,940

 

 

 

 

 

$

7,488,940

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods — 1.8%

 

 

 

 

 

Compagnie Financiere Richemont AG, Class A

 

700,000

 

33,617,238

 

 

 

 

 

$

33,617,238

 

Tobacco — 3.7%

 

 

 

 

 

Altria Group, Inc.

 

850,000

 

65,067,500

 

Imperial Tobacco Group PLC

 

200,000

 

6,643,054

 

 

 

 

 

$

71,710,554

 

Wireless Telecommunication Services — 1.7%

 

 

 

 

 

Alltel Corp.

 

450,000

 

24,975,000

 

Bouygues SA

 

150,000

 

8,001,694

 

 

 

 

 

$

32,976,694

 

Total Common Stocks
(identified cost $1,678,436,225)

 

 

 

$

2,248,317,211

 

 

Preferred Stocks — 22.0%

Security

 

Shares

 

Value

 

Capital Markets — 0.9%

 

 

 

 

 

UBS Preferred Funding Trust I, 8.622% (2)(3)

 

150,000

 

17,346,105

 

 

 

 

 

$

17,346,105

 

Commercial Banks — 11.1%

 

 

 

 

 

Abbey National Capital Trust I, 8.963% (2)(3)

 

232,500

 

31,331,305

 

Abbey National PLC, 7.375%

 

143,500

 

3,659,250

 

ABN AMRO Capital Funding Trust VII, 6.08%

 

149,000

 

3,653,480

 

ABN AMRO North America Capital Funding Trust, 6.968% (3)(4)

 

3,300

 

3,468,094

 

Barclays Bank PLC, 8.55% (2)(3)(4)

 

218,600

 

25,135,699

 

BNP Paribas Capital Trust, 9.003% (2)(3)(4)

 

150,000

 

17,238,750

 

CA Preferred Fund Trust II, 7.00% (2)

 

50,000

 

5,130,550

 

CA Preferred Fund Trust, 7.00% (2)

 

250,000

 

25,588,100

 

Den Norske Bank, 7.729% (1)(2)(3)(4)

 

50,000

 

5,509,125

 

First Tennessee Bank, 6.35719% (3)(4)

 

8,275

 

8,525,319

 

HSBC Capital Funding LP, 9.547% (2)(3)(4)

 

210,000

 

24,349,269

 

4




 

 

 

Lloyds TSB Bank PLC, 6.90% (2)

 

220,000

 

$

22,275,682

 

Nordbanken AB, 8.95% (2)(3)(4)

 

15,700

 

1,774,911

 

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, 9.118% (2)

 

235,750

 

27,402,236

 

US Bancorp, Series B, 6.10688% (3)

 

300,000

 

7,755,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

212,796,770

 

Diversified Financial Services — 1.2%

 

 

 

 

 

Bank of America Corp., Series D, 6.204%

 

400,000

 

10,208,000

 

ING Groep NV, 6.125%

 

155,000

 

3,845,550

 

ING Group NV, 7.20%

 

330,000

 

8,467,800

 

 

 

 

 

$

22,521,350

 

Food Products — 1.1%

 

 

 

 

 

Dairy Farmers of America, 7.875% (4)

 

222,480

 

22,105,613

 

 

 

 

 

$

22,105,613

 

Insurance — 6.2%

 

 

 

 

 

ACE, Ltd., 7.80%

 

177,500

 

4,606,125

 

Aegon NV, 6.375%

 

400,000

 

10,116,000

 

Aegon NV, 6.50%

 

70,000

 

1,775,900

 

Arch Capital Group, Ltd., 7.875%

 

11,000

 

284,350

 

Arch Capital Group, Ltd., 8.00%

 

77,000

 

2,048,200

 

AXA, 7.10% (2)

 

225,000

 

22,964,422

 

Endurance Specialty Holdings, Ltd., 7.75%

 

307,200

 

7,848,960

 

ING Capital Funding Trust III, 8.439% (2)(3)

 

170,000

 

19,236,418

 

MetLife, Inc., 6.33% (3)

 

202,500

 

5,234,625

 

MetLife, Inc., 6.50%

 

97,500

 

2,526,225

 

Prudential PLC, 6.50% (2)

 

207,000

 

20,233,298

 

RenaissanceRe Holdings, Ltd., 6.08%

 

447,500

 

9,943,450

 

Zurich Regcaps Fund Trust VI, 6.115% (3)(4)

 

12,500

 

12,640,625

 

 

 

 

 

$

119,458,598

 

Multi-Utilities — 0.4%

 

 

 

 

 

Southern California Edison, 6.000%

 

80,000

 

8,113,360

 

 

 

 

 

$

8,113,360

 

Thrifts & Mortgage Finance — 1.1%

 

 

 

 

 

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Series F, 5.00%

 

80,000

 

3,460,000

 

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Series M, 3.93%

 

100,000

 

4,225,000

 

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Series S, 0.00% (3)

 

50,000

 

2,562,500

 

Federal National Mortgage Association, Series K, 5.396% (3)

 

55,000

 

2,763,750

 

Federal National Mortgage Association, Series M, 4.75%

 

100,000

 

4,131,000

 

Federal National Mortgage Association, Series O, 7.625%

 

60,000

 

3,191,250

 

 

 

 

 

$

20,333,500

 

Total Preferred Stocks
(identified cost $435,441,133)

 

 

 

$

422,675,296

 

5




 

 

 

Total Investments — 139.0%
(identified cost $2,113,877,358)

 

 

 

$

2,670,992,507

 

Other Assets, Less Liabilities — (0.0)%

 

 

 

$

(43,801

)

Auction Preferred Shares, Plus Cumulative Unpaid Dividends — (39.0)%

 

 

 

$

(750,054,410

)

Net Assets — 100.0%

 

 

 

$

1,920,894,296

 

 

ADR

American Depository Receipt

(1)

 

Non-income producing security.

(2)

 

Security valued at fair value using methods determined in good faith by or at the direction of the Trustees.

(3)

 

Variable rate security. The stated interest rate represents the rate in effect at September 30, 2006.

(4)

 

Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities may be sold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At September 30, 2006, the aggregate value of the securities is $120,747,405 or 6.3% of the Fund’s net assets.

 

Country Concentration of Portfolio

 

 

Percentage of

 

 

 

Country

 

Total Investments

 

Value

 

United States

 

52.0

%

$

1,388,408,667

 

United Kingdom

 

17.1

 

456,686,197

 

France

 

7.0

 

186,516,435

 

Germany

 

5.4

 

145,125,380

 

Canada

 

4.7

 

126,490,622

 

Switzerland

 

3.4

 

92,208,719

 

Norway

 

2.2

 

57,961,547

 

Bermuda

 

1.9

 

50,415,110

 

Netherlands

 

1.7

 

44,966,464

 

Italy

 

1.6

 

42,553,529

 

Ireland

 

1.0

 

26,597,130

 

Other countries, less than 1%

 

2.0

 

53,062,707

 

 

 

100.00

 

$

2,670,992,507

 

 

The Fund did not have any open financial instruments at September 30, 2006.

The cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in value of investments owned by the Fund at September 30, 2006, as computed on a federal income tax basis, were as follows:

Aggregate cost

 

$

2,114,403,372

 

Gross unrealized appreciation

 

$

575,643,460

 

Gross unrealized depreciation

 

(19,054,345

)

Net unrealized appreciation

 

$

556,589,115

 

 

6




 

Item 2. Controls and Procedures

 

(a) It is the conclusion of the registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer that the effectiveness of the registrant’s current disclosure controls and procedures (such disclosure controls and procedures having been evaluated within 90 days of the date of this filing) provide reasonable assurance that the information required to be disclosed by the registrant on this Form N-Q has been recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time period specified in the Commission’s rules and forms and that the information required to be disclosed by the registrant on this Form N-Q has been accumulated and communicated to the registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer in order to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

 

(b) There have been no changes in the registrant’s internal controls over financial reporting during the fiscal quarter for which the report is being filed that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 



 

Signatures

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Income Fund

 

By:

/s/ Duncan W. Richardson

 

 

Duncan W. Richardson

 

President and Principal Executive Officer

 

 

Date:

November 22, 2006

 

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Duncan W. Richardson

 

 

Duncan W. Richardson

 

President and Principal Executive Officer

 

 

Date:

November 22, 2006

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Barbara E. Campbell

 

 

Barbara E. Campbell

 

Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer

 

 

Date:

November 22, 2006