UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM N-Q

 

 

QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED
MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES

 

Investment Company Act File Number

 

811-21519

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Opportunities 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)

 

 

 

Maureen A. Gemma
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:

 

January 31, 2008

 

 



 

Item 1. Schedule of Investments

 



 

Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Opportunities Fund

 

as of January 31, 2008

 

 

 

PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited)

 

 

 

Common Stocks — 112.6%

 

Security

 

Shares

 

Value

 

Chemicals — 1.4%

 

 

 

 

 

BASF AG

 

50,000

 

$

6,485,328

 

 

 

 

 

$

6,485,328

 

Commercial Banks — 9.1%

 

 

 

 

 

Bank of Nova Scotia

 

200,000

 

$

9,574,000

 

Danske Bank A/S

 

250,000

 

8,945,117

 

PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.

 

100,000

 

6,562,000

 

Toronto-Dominion Bank

 

75,000

 

5,077,500

 

U.S. Bancorp

 

350,000

 

11,882,500

 

 

 

 

 

$

42,041,117

 

Computer Peripherals — 2.3%

 

 

 

 

 

International Business Machines Corp.

 

100,000

 

$

10,734,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

10,734,000

 

Diversified Financial Services — 1.0%

 

 

 

 

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

 

100,000

 

$

4,755,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

4,755,000

 

Diversified Telecommunication Services — 7.2%

 

 

 

 

 

AT&T, Inc.

 

350,000

 

$

13,471,500

 

Telefonos de Mexico SA ADR

 

200,000

 

7,220,000

 

Verizon Communications, Inc.

 

325,000

 

12,623,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

33,314,500

 

Electric Utilities — 7.4%

 

 

 

 

 

Edison International

 

100,000

 

$

5,216,000

 

Entergy Corp.

 

125,000

 

13,522,500

 

Exelon Corp.

 

200,000

 

15,238,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

33,976,500

 

Energy Equipment & Services — 2.2%

 

 

 

 

 

Halliburton Co.

 

300,000

 

$

9,951,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

9,951,000

 

Food Products — 2.8%

 

 

 

 

 

Kraft Foods, Inc., Class A

 

75,000

 

$

2,194,500

 

Nestle SA ADR

 

100,000

 

10,960,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

13,154,500

 

Household Products — 1.8%

 

 

 

 

 

Kimberly-Clark de Mexico SA de C.V.

 

2,000,000

 

$

8,105,173

 

 

 

 

 

$

8,105,173

 

Industrial Conglomerates — 1.1%

 

 

 

 

 

Pirelli & Co. SPA (1)

 

5,000,000

 

$

5,204,805

 

 

 

 

 

$

5,204,805

 

Machinery — 1.5%

 

 

 

 

 

Caterpillar, Inc.

 

100,000

 

$

7,114,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

7,114,000

 

Media — 1.0%

 

 

 

 

 

Reed Elsevier PLC

 

381,322

 

$

4,604,613

 

 

 

 

 

$

4,604,613

 

Metals & Mining — 21.5%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anglo American PLC ADR

 

227,500

 

$

6,294,925

 

Arcelormittal ADR

 

150,000

 

9,958,500

 

 

1



 

BHP Billiton, Ltd. ADR

 

250,000

 

$

16,892,500

 

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

 

275,250

 

24,505,508

 

Rio Tinto PLC ADR

 

50,000

 

20,347,500

 

Southern Copper Corp.

 

200,000

 

18,768,000

 

ThyssenKrupp AG

 

50,000

 

2,434,472

 

 

 

 

 

$

99,201,405

 

Multi-Utilities — 6.8%

 

 

 

 

 

Dominion Resources, Inc.

 

300,000

 

$

12,900,000

 

Veolia Environnement

 

225,000

 

18,431,258

 

 

 

 

 

$

31,331,258

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels — 31.6%

 

 

 

 

 

BP PLC ADR

 

100,000

 

$

6,375,000

 

ChevronTexaco Corp.

 

200,000

 

16,900,000

 

ConocoPhillips

 

200,000

 

16,064,000

 

Enbridge, Inc.

 

400,000

 

15,972,000

 

Exxon Mobil Corp.

 

100,000

 

8,640,000

 

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

 

300,000

 

20,361,000

 

Patriot Coal Corp. (1)

 

10,000

 

397,500

 

Peabody Energy Corp.

 

100,000

 

5,402,000

 

Statoil ASA

 

500,000

 

13,090,940

 

Suncor Energy, Inc.

 

175,000

 

16,446,500

 

Total SA ADR

 

200,000

 

14,556,000

 

Valero Energy Corp.

 

200,000

 

11,838,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

146,042,940

 

Pharmaceuticals — 2.1%

 

 

 

 

 

GlaxoSmithKline PLC ADR

 

200,000

 

$

9,476,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

9,476,000

 

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) — 5.7%

 

 

 

 

 

AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

 

25,000

 

$

2,348,750

 

Boston Properties, Inc.

 

25,000

 

2,298,000

 

Federal Realty Investment Trust

 

50,000

 

3,690,000

 

Plum Creek Timber Co., Inc.

 

175,000

 

7,306,250

 

Public Storage, Inc.

 

75,000

 

5,868,750

 

Rayonier, Inc.

 

112,500

 

4,761,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

26,272,750

 

Road & Rail — 1.2%

 

 

 

 

 

Norfolk Southern Corp.

 

100,000

 

$

5,439,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

5,439,000

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods — 1.7%

 

 

 

 

 

VF Corp.

 

100,000

 

$

7,737,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

7,737,000

 

Tobacco — 3.2%

 

 

 

 

 

Altria Group, Inc.

 

100,000

 

$

7,582,000

 

Imperial Tobacco Group PLC

 

150,000

 

7,335,236

 

 

 

 

 

$

14,917,236

 

Total Common Stocks
(identified cost $313,623,302)

 

 

 

$

519,858,125

 

 

Preferred Stocks — 18.0%

 

Security

 

Shares

 

Value

 

Commercial Banks — 11.1%

 

 

 

 

 

Abbey National Capital Trust I, 8.963% (2)

 

15,000

 

$

1,789,389

 

ABN AMRO North America Capital Funding Trust, 6.968% (2) (3)

 

950

 

944,656

 

Barclays Bank PLC, 8.55% (2) (3)

 

55,000

 

6,020,812

 

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

 

105,000

 

11,468,940

 

CA Preferred Funding Trust, 7.00%

 

55,000

 

5,477,181

 

 

2



 

Den Norske Bank, 7.729% (2) (3)

 

36,000

 

$

3,832,664

 

Deutsche Bank Contingent Capital Trust II, 6.55%

 

25,000

 

611,500

 

HBOS PLC, 6.657% (2) (3)

 

19,000

 

1,578,702

 

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

 

70,000

 

7,728,371

 

Landsbanki Islands HF, 7.431% (2) (3)

 

21,500

 

1,838,796

 

Lloyds TSB Bank PLC, 6.90%

 

40,000

 

3,990,320

 

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., 6.70%

 

8,000

 

190,400

 

National City Corp., 9.875% (2)

 

75,000

 

1,961,250

 

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, 7.64% (2)

 

9,000

 

946,401

 

Standard Chartered PLC, 6.409% (2) (3)

 

10,500

 

947,109

 

Wachovia Corp., 8.00%

 

75,000

 

1,977,750

 

 

 

 

 

$

51,304,241

 

Diversified Financial Services — 0.9%

 

 

 

 

 

Citigroup Inc., Series AA, 8.125%

 

50,000

 

$

1,311,000

 

ING Group NV, 6.125%

 

35,000

 

825,650

 

ING Group NV, 7.375%

 

30,000

 

769,200

 

Santander Finance SA UNIP, 6.80%

 

7,500

 

175,125

 

Santander Finance UNIP, 6.50%

 

51,000

 

1,137,300

 

 

 

 

 

$

4,218,275

 

Food Products — 0.4%

 

 

 

 

 

Dairy Farmers of America, 7.875% (3)

 

18,500

 

$

1,711,829

 

 

 

 

 

$

1,711,829

 

Gas Utilities — 0.7%

 

 

 

 

 

Southern Union Co., 7.55%

 

123,300

 

$

3,100,995

 

 

 

 

 

$

3,100,995

 

Insurance — 3.2%

 

 

 

 

 

Aegon NV, 6.375%

 

95,000

 

$

2,263,850

 

Arch Capital Group, Ltd., Series B, 7.875%

 

15,000

 

375,000

 

AXA SA, 6.463% (2) (3)

 

37,000

 

3,260,784

 

AXA SA, 7.10%

 

18,000

 

1,829,866

 

Endurance Specialty Holdings, Ltd., 7.75%

 

14,750

 

364,915

 

PartnerRe, Ltd., 6.50%

 

20,000

 

485,000

 

Prudential PLC, 6.50%

 

18,000

 

1,638,358

 

RenaissanceRe Holdings, Ltd., 6.08%

 

113,000

 

2,384,300

 

Zurich Regcaps Fund Trust V, 5.579% (2) (3)

 

2,500

 

2,332,813

 

 

 

 

 

$

14,934,886

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels — 1.2%

 

 

 

 

 

Kinder Morgan GP, Inc., 8.33% (2) (3)

 

5,000

 

$

5,455,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

5,455,000

 

Thrifts & Mortgage Finance — 0.5%

 

 

 

 

 

Federal National Mortgage Association, 8.25%

 

17,500

 

$

462,350

 

Federal National Mortgage Association, Series O, Variable Rate, 7.00% (2)

 

25,000

 

1,245,313

 

Indymac Bank FSB, 8.50% (3)

 

75,000

 

604,688

 

 

 

 

 

$

2,312,351

 

Total Preferred Stocks
(identified cost $86,484,378)

 

 

 

$

83,037,577

 

 

Short-Term Investments — 0.8%

 

 

 

Interest

 

 

 

Description

 

(000’s omitted)

 

Value

 

Investment in Cash Management Portfolio, 4.32% (4)

 

$

3,757

 

$

3,756,649

 

Total Short-Term Investments
(identified cost $3,756,649)

 

 

 

$

3,756,649

 

Total Investments — 131.4%
(identified cost $403,864,329)

 

 

 

$

606,652,351

 

 

3



 

Other Assets, Less Liabilities — 0.0%

 

 

 

$

121,195

 

Auction Preferred Shares Plus Cumulative Unpaid Dividends — (31.4)%

 

 

 

$

(145,040,000

)

Net Assets Applicable to Common Shares — 100.0%

 

 

 

$

461,733,546

 

 

ADR

American Depository Receipt

 

 

 

(1)

 

Non-income producing security.

 

 

 

(2)

 

Variable rate security. The stated interest rate represents the rate in effect at January 31, 2008.

 

 

 

(3)

 

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 January 31, 2008, the aggregate value of the securities is $47,725,164 or 10.34% of the the Fund’s net assets.

 

 

 

(4)

 

Affiliated investment company available to Eaton Vance portfolios and funds which invests in high quality, U.S. dollar denominated money market instruments. The rate shown is the annualized seven-day yield as of January 31, 2008. Net income allocated from the Investment in Cash Management Portfolio for the fiscal year to date ended January 31, 2008 was $89,457.

 

Country Concentration of Portfolio

 

 

 

Percentage

 

 

 

Country

 

of Total Investments

 

Value

 

United States

 

56.1

%

$

340,472,459

 

United Kingdom

 

12.7

 

77,283,349

 

Canada

 

7.8

 

47,070,000

 

France

 

6.3

 

38,077,908

 

Australia

 

2.8

 

16,892,500

 

Norway

 

2.8

 

16,923,604

 

Mexico

 

2.5

 

15,325,173

 

Switzerland

 

1.8

 

10,960,000

 

Luxembourg

 

1.6

 

9,958,500

 

Denmark

 

1.5

 

8,945,117

 

Germany

 

1.5

 

8,919,800

 

Italy

 

0.9

 

5,204,805

 

Netherlands

 

0.6

 

3,858,700

 

Bermuda

 

0.6

 

3,609,215

 

Iceland

 

0.3

 

1,838,796

 

Spain

 

0.2

 

1,312,425

 

 

 

100.0

%

$

606,652,351

 

 

The Fund did not have any open financial instruments at January 31, 2008.

 

The cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments of the Fund at January 31, 2008, as determined on a federal income tax basis, were as follows:

 

Aggregate cost

 

$

404,068,511

 

Gross unrealized appreciation

 

$

212,017,975

 

Gross unrealized depreciation

 

(9,434,135

)

Net unrealized appreciation

 

$

202,583,840

 

 

4



 

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 Opportunities Fund

 

By:

 

/s/ Duncan W. Richardson

 

 

Duncan W. Richardson

 

 

President

 

 

 

Date:

 

March 11, 2008

 

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

 

 

 

Date:

 

March 11, 2008

 

 

 

By:

 

/s/ Barbara E. Campbell

 

 

Barbara E. Campbell

 

 

Treasurer

 

 

 

Date:

 

March 11, 2008