---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001076598-25-000337"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EVG"
cik: "0001287498"
company_name: "Eaton Vance Short Duration Diversified Income Fund"
filed_at: "2025-08-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T12:52:22.876754+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Eaton Vance Short Duration fund chairperson Mark R. Fetting dies; acting chair appointed

## Summary
- Chairperson Mark R. Fetting unexpectedly passed away on August 9, 2025.
- Susan J. Sutherland named acting Chairperson of the Board.
- Board size reduced from ten to nine members effective August 12, 2025.
- No other operational or financial changes disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001076598-25-000337
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EVG
- cik: 0001287498
- company_name: Eaton Vance Short Duration Diversified Income Fund
- filed_at: 2025-08-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1287498/000107659825000337/0001076598-25-000337-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1287498/000107659825000337/evg8k.htm

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