---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001445546-23-004073"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FMY"
cik: "0001319183"
company_name: "FIRST TRUST MORTGAGE INCOME FUND"
filed_at: "2023-06-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T17:44:18.069610+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Trust closed-end funds rescind control share by-laws across 14 funds

## Summary
- Board rescinded control share provisions in by-laws of 14 First Trust closed-end funds, effective June 22, 2023.
- Control Share By-Law previously limited voting rights for holders acquiring >20% of shares without non-interested shareholder approval.
- Rescission eliminates all prior and future voting restrictions on Control Share Acquisitions for these funds.
- Funds include FMY, FCT, FEN, FFA, FAM, FGB, FSD, FIF, FEI, FPF, FPL, FDEU, FTHY, MFD.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001445546-23-004073
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FMY
- cik: 0001319183
- company_name: FIRST TRUST MORTGAGE INCOME FUND
- filed_at: 2023-06-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1319183/000144554623004073/0001445546-23-004073-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1319183/000144554623004073/fmy_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  FIRST TRUST MORTGAGE INCOME FUND: Board amended and restated By-Laws to rescind Article XII (control share provisions) and make conforming amendments, effective immediately on June 22, 2023 (effective 2023-06-22).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-06-22
  source text: On June 22, 2023, the Board of Trustees of First Trust Mortgage Income Fund amended and restated its existing Amended and Restated By-Laws (and as so amended and restated, the “By-Laws”), effective immediately. The By-Laws were revised to rescind Article XII and its accompanying control share provisions, along with other conforming amendments.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1319183/000144554623004073/0001445546-23-004073-index.htm

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