---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001076598-25-000339"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ETG"
cik: "0001270523"
company_name: "Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Income Fund"
filed_at: "2025-08-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T12:51:37.223998+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# ETG Chairperson Mark R. Fetting passes away; acting Chair named

## Summary
- Mark R. Fetting, Board Chair of Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Income Fund (ETG), unexpectedly died on August 9, 2025.
- Susan J. Sutherland appointed acting Chairperson effective August 9, 2025.
- Board size reduced from ten to nine members effective August 12, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001076598-25-000339
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ETG
- cik: 0001270523
- company_name: Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Income Fund
- filed_at: 2025-08-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1270523/000107659825000339/0001076598-25-000339-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1270523/000107659825000339/etg8k.htm

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