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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000940394-24-000988"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ETJ"
cik: "0001395325"
company_name: "Eaton Vance Risk-Managed Diversified Equity Income Fund"
filed_at: "2024-10-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T16:30:07.720072+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Eaton Vance Risk-Managed Diversified Equity Income Fund removes control share provisions from bylaws

## Summary
- Board adopted Amendment No. 1 to Bylaws on October 10, 2024, eliminating Control Share Provisions.
- Amendment makes conforming changes and is effective as of October 10, 2024.
- Previously, on Jan 26, 2023, Board exempted all prior and future acquisitions from these provisions.
- Formal removal eliminates potential triggers for shareholder voting rights limitations.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000940394-24-000988
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ETJ
- cik: 0001395325
- company_name: Eaton Vance Risk-Managed Diversified Equity Income Fund
- filed_at: 2024-10-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1395325/000094039424000988/0000940394-24-000988-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1395325/000094039424000988/etj8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Eaton Vance Risk-Managed Diversified Equity Income Fund: Eliminated the Control Share Provisions from the Fund's Amended and Restated By-Laws and made related conforming changes (effective 2024-10-10).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-10-10
  source text: On January 26, 2023, the Board of Trustees of the Fund (the “Board”) voted to exempt, on a going forward basis, all prior and, until further notice, new acquisitions of Fund shares that otherwise might be deemed “Control Share Acquisitions” under the Fund’s Amended and Restated By-Laws (the “By-Laws”) from the provisions of the By-Laws addressing “Control Share Acquisitions” (the “Control Share Provisions”). On October 10, 2024, the Board adopted Amendment No. 1 to the By-Laws to formally eliminate the Control Share Provisions and to make certain related conforming changes.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1395325/000094039424000988/0000940394-24-000988-index.htm

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