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

 

811-21470

Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Income 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)

Alan R. Dynner, Esq.
Eaton Vance Management, 255 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109

(Name and Address of Agent for Services)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code:

 

(617) 482-8260

Date of Fiscal Year End:

 

October 31

Date of Reporting Period:

 

July 31, 2007

 

 




Item 1. Schedule of Investments




Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Income Fund                                                        as of July 31, 2007

PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited)

Common Stocks — 114.7%

Security

 

Shares

 

Value

 

Beverages — 1.9%

 

 

 

 

 

Diageo PLC

 

2,000,000

 

$

40,871,069

 

 

 

 

 

$

40,871,069

 

Capital Markets — 2.3%

 

 

 

 

 

Deutsche Bank AG

 

100,000

 

$

13,628,000

 

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

 

200,000

 

14,840,000

 

UBS AG

 

400,000

 

22,115,075

 

 

 

 

 

$

50,583,075

 

Chemicals — 1.3%

 

 

 

 

 

BASF AG

 

225,000

 

$

29,115,541

 

 

 

 

 

$

29,115,541

 

Commercial Banks — 11.2%

 

 

 

 

 

Allied Irish Banks PLC

 

1,000,000

 

$

26,089,736

 

Bank of Montreal

 

400,000

 

25,004,000

 

Bank of Nova Scotia

 

800,000

 

37,216,000

 

Barclays PLC

 

2,000,000

 

28,105,089

 

BNP Paribas SA

 

400,000

 

43,992,425

 

Credit Agricole SA

 

100,000

 

3,822,890

 

HBOS PLC

 

750,000

 

14,611,345

 

Societe Generale

 

375,000

 

64,487,460

 

 

 

 

 

$

243,328,945

 

Construction & Engineering — 1.7%

 

 

 

 

 

Vinci SA

 

500,000

 

$

35,834,609

 

 

 

 

 

$

35,834,609

 

Construction Materials — 0.6%

 

 

 

 

 

Cemex SA de CV Sponored ADR (1)

 

433,039

 

$

14,004,481

 

 

 

 

 

$

14,004,481

 

Distributors — 0.9%

 

 

 

 

 

Genuine Parts Co.

 

400,000

 

$

19,032,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

19,032,000

 

Diversified Financial Services — 2.1%

 

 

 

 

 

Bank of America Corp.

 

400,000

 

$

18,968,000

 

Citigroup, Inc.

 

400,000

 

18,628,000

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

 

200,000

 

8,802,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

46,398,000

 

Diversified Telecommunication Services — 9.3%

 

 

 

 

 

AT&T, Inc.

 

2,195,000

 

$

85,956,200

 

BCE, Inc.

 

1,098,000

 

41,548,320

 

BT Group PLC

 

6,000,000

 

38,044,121

 

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Elisa Oyj

 

300,000

 

$

8,484,860

 

Verizon Communications, Inc.

 

500,000

 

21,310,000

 

Windstream Corp.

 

465,267

 

6,402,074

 

 

 

 

 

$

201,745,575

 

Electric Utilities — 16.5%

 

 

 

 

 

E. ON AG

 

500,000

 

$

78,718,613

 

Edison International

 

650,000

 

34,378,500

 

Enel SPA

 

1,250,000

 

12,910,319

 

Entergy Corp.

 

450,000

 

44,982,000

 

Exelon Corp.

 

560,000

 

39,284,000

 

FPL Group, Inc.

 

700,000

 

40,411,000

 

Iberdrola SA

 

300,460

 

16,881,700

 

Scottish and Southern Energy PLC

 

2,500,000

 

73,080,768

 

Southern Co.

 

500,000

 

16,820,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

357,466,900

 

Electrical Equipment — 3.0%

 

 

 

 

 

Cooper Industries, Ltd., Class A

 

450,000

 

$

23,814,000

 

Emerson Electric Co.

 

900,000

 

42,363,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

66,177,000

 

Food Products — 2.7%

 

 

 

 

 

Kraft Foods, Inc., Class A

 

588,220

 

$

19,264,205

 

Nestle SA

 

100,000

 

38,366,692

 

 

 

 

 

$

57,630,897

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure — 3.9%

 

 

 

 

 

Compass Group PLC

 

6,719,671

 

$

45,353,155

 

McDonald’s Corp.

 

800,000

 

38,296,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

83,649,155

 

Household Durables — 0.6%

 

 

 

 

 

Stanley Works

 

250,000

 

$

13,832,500

 

 

 

 

 

$

13,832,500

 

Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders — 0.2%

 

 

 

 

 

Drax Group PLC

 

353,432

 

$

4,900,287

 

 

 

 

 

$

4,900,287

 

Industrial Conglomerates — 0.1%

 

 

 

 

 

General Electric Co.

 

50,000

 

$

1,938,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

1,938,000

 

Insurance — 9.2%

 

 

 

 

 

Aegon NV

 

500,000

 

$

9,057,873

 

Allianz SE

 

50,000

 

10,637,634

 

American International Group, Inc.

 

200,000

 

12,836,000

 

AON Corp.

 

400,000

 

16,016,000

 

Chubb Corp.

 

300,000

 

15,123,000

 

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Legal & General Group PLC

 

5,000,000

 

$

14,101,299

 

Lincoln National Corp.

 

400,000

 

24,128,000

 

Prudential Financial, Inc.

 

465,000

 

41,212,950

 

Travelers Cos., Inc.

 

300,000

 

15,234,000

 

Willis Group Holdings, Ltd.

 

300,000

 

12,177,000

 

Zurich Financial Services AG

 

100,000

 

29,100,462

 

 

 

 

 

$

199,624,218

 

Machinery — 3.7%

 

 

 

 

 

Atlas Copco AB, Class A

 

1,000,000

 

$

17,207,340

 

Deere & Co.

 

400,000

 

48,168,000

 

Vallourec SA

 

60,000

 

15,528,226

 

 

 

 

 

$

80,903,566

 

Media — 0.4%

 

 

 

 

 

Reed Elsevier NV

 

100,000

 

$

1,837,404

 

Wolters Kluwer NV

 

200,000

 

5,861,648

 

 

 

 

 

$

7,699,052

 

Metals & Mining — 3.6%

 

 

 

 

 

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc.

 

350,000

 

$

32,893,000

 

Southern Copper Corp.

 

400,000

 

45,084,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

77,977,000

 

Multi-Utilities — 7.7%

 

 

 

 

 

Ameren Corp.

 

268,000

 

$

12,858,640

 

RWE AG

 

575,000

 

61,108,654

 

United Utilities PLC

 

1,870,542

 

25,430,250

 

Veolia Environnement

 

914,888

 

68,012,695

 

 

 

 

 

$

167,410,239

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels — 16.7%

 

 

 

 

 

BP PLC ADR

 

650,000

 

$

45,110,000

 

Cairn Energy PLC (1)

 

650,000

 

22,744,367

 

Chevron Corp.

 

650,000

 

55,419,000

 

ENI SPA

 

1,280,000

 

44,818,425

 

Marathon Oil Corp.

 

1,100,000

 

60,720,000

 

Neste Oil Oyj

 

187,500

 

6,711,590

 

Statoil ASA

 

2,200,000

 

65,098,984

 

Total SA ADR

 

800,000

 

62,888,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

363,510,366

 

Pharmaceuticals — 5.0%

 

 

 

 

 

Altana AG

 

515,000

 

$

12,099,684

 

AstraZeneca PLC

 

400,000

 

20,682,702

 

Johnson & Johnson

 

400,000

 

24,200,000

 

Wyeth

 

1,050,000

 

50,946,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

107,928,386

 

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Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) — 3.8%

 

 

 

 

 

AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

 

200,000

 

$

21,594,000

 

Boston Properties, Inc.

 

170,000

 

16,063,300

 

Developers Diversified Realty Corp.

 

200,000

 

9,600,000

 

Simon Property Group, Inc.

 

260,000

 

22,497,800

 

SL Green Realty Corp.

 

96,700

 

11,741,314

 

 

 

 

 

$

81,496,414

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment — 0.2%

 

 

 

 

 

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. ADR

 

504,999

 

$

5,125,740

 

 

 

 

 

$

5,125,740

 

Steel Fabrication — 0.2%

 

 

 

 

 

ThyssenKrupp AG

 

78,886

 

$

4,367,316

 

 

 

 

 

$

4,367,316

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods — 2.0%

 

 

 

 

 

Compagnie Financiere Richemont AG, Class A

 

700,000

 

$

43,813,119

 

 

 

 

 

$

43,813,119

 

Tobacco — 3.0%

 

 

 

 

 

Altria Group, Inc.

 

850,000

 

$

56,499,500

 

Imperial Tobacco Group PLC

 

200,000

 

8,771,157

 

 

 

 

 

$

65,270,657

 

Water Utilities — 0.3%

 

 

 

 

 

Kelda Group PLC

 

430,769

 

$

7,297,072

 

 

 

 

 

$

7,297,072

 

Wireless Telecommunication Services — 0.6%

 

 

 

 

 

Bouygues SA

 

150,000

 

$

12,020,551

 

 

 

 

 

$

12,020,551

 

Total Common Stocks
(identified cost $1,691,801,496)

 

 

 

$

2,490,951,730

 

 

Preferred Stocks — 18.6%

Security

 

Shares

 

Value

 

Banks and Money Services — 0.5%

 

 

 

 

 

IXE Banco SA, 9.75% (2)(3)

 

30,000

 

$

3,162,003

 

S Finance Preferred Unipersonal, 6.8% (3)

 

150,000

 

3,806,250

 

Santander Finance Unipersonal, 6.5% (3)

 

136,500

 

3,425,304

 

 

 

 

 

$

10,393,557

 

Commercial Banks — 11.2%

 

 

 

 

 

Abbey National Capital Trust I, 8.963% (2)(4)

 

232,500

 

$

29,383,117

 

ABN AMRO North America Capital Funding Trust, 6.968% (3)(4)

 

3,300

 

3,524,813

 

4




 

 

 

Bank of America Corp., Series D, 6.204%

 

300,000

 

$

7,500,000

 

Barclays Bank PLC, 8.55% (2)(3)(4)

 

218,600

 

24,460,837

 

BNP Paribas Capital Trust, 9.003% (2)(3)(4)

 

150,000

 

16,610,415

 

CA Preferred Fund Trust II, 7.00% (2)

 

50,000

 

4,858,455

 

CA Preferred Fund Trust, 7.00% (2)

 

250,000

 

24,136,675

 

DB Capital Funding II, 6.55%

 

135,000

 

3,294,000

 

DB Capital Funding VIII, 6.375%

 

206,000

 

4,944,000

 

Den Norske Bank, 7.729% (2)(3)(4)

 

50,000

 

5,348,430

 

First Tennessee Bank, 6.17% (3)(4)

 

5,275

 

5,532,156

 

HBOS PLC, 6.657% (2)(3)

 

70,000

 

6,467,615

 

HSBC Capital Funding LP, 9.547% (2)(3)(4)

 

210,000

 

23,412,900

 

Lloyds TSB Bank PLC, 6.90% (2)

 

220,000

 

21,857,198

 

Nordea Bank AB, 8.95% (2)(3)(4)

 

15,700

 

1,707,290

 

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, 9.118% (2)

 

235,750

 

26,362,720

 

Standard Chartered PLC, 6.409% (2)(3)(4)

 

105,000

 

9,602,691

 

Standard Chartered PLC, 7.014% (2)(3)

 

40,000

 

3,653,684

 

UBS Preferred Funding Trust I, 8.622% (2)(4)

 

150,000

 

16,763,460

 

US Bancorp, Series B, 5.92 (4)

 

150,000

 

3,892,500

 

 

 

 

 

$

243,312,956

 

Diversified Financial Services — 0.4%

 

 

 

 

 

ING Groep NV, 6.125%

 

130,000

 

$

2,984,800

 

ING Group NV, 7.20%

 

200,500

 

5,062,625

 

 

 

 

 

$

8,047,425

 

Food Products — 0.3%

 

 

 

 

 

Dairy Farmers of America, 7.875% (3)

 

75,230

 

$

7,657,007

 

 

 

 

 

$

7,657,007

 

Insurance — 4.9%

 

 

 

 

 

Aegon NV, 6.375%

 

416,000

 

$

9,875,840

 

Aegon NV, 6.50%

 

54,000

 

1,294,920

 

Arch Capital Group, Ltd., 7.875%

 

11,000

 

283,250

 

Arch Capital Group, Ltd., 8.00%

 

77,000

 

2,024,330

 

AXA SA, 6.463% (2)(3)(4)

 

122,000

 

11,004,205

 

AXA, 7.10% (2)

 

153,000

 

15,171,358

 

Endurance Specialty Holdings, Ltd., 7.75%

 

246,200

 

6,406,124

 

ING Capital Funding Trust III, 8.439% (2)(4)

 

170,000

 

18,574,795

 

MetLife, Inc., 6.50%

 

160,000

 

3,996,800

 

Prudential PLC, 6.50% (2)

 

207,000

 

19,564,978

 

RenaissanceRe Holdings, Ltd., 6.08%

 

257,500

 

5,356,000

 

Zurich Regcaps Fund Trust VI, 6.07% (3)(4)

 

12,500

 

12,855,469

 

 

 

 

 

$

106,408,069

 

Multi-Utilities — 0.3%

 

 

 

 

 

Southern California Edison, 6.000%

 

80,000

 

$

7,681,200

 

 

 

 

 

$

7,681,200

 

5




 

 

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels — 0.3%

 

 

 

 

 

Kinder Morgan Group, Inc., 8.33% (4)

 

6,000

 

$

6,000,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

6,000,000

 

Thrifts & Mortgage Finance — 0.7%

 

 

 

 

 

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Series M, 4.68% (4)

 

100,000

 

$

4,450,000

 

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Series S, 5.84938% (4)

 

50,000

 

2,600,000

 

Indymac Bank FSB, 8.50% (3)

 

400,000

 

8,625,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

15,675,000

 

Total Preferred Stocks
(identified cost $431,895,972)

 

 

 

$

405,175,214

 

 

Other Issues — 0.0%

Security

 

Shares

 

Value

 

Cairn Energy PLC, Deferred Shares Class B (1)(2)

 

800,000

 

$

0

 

Kelda Group PLC, Deferred Shares (1)(2)

 

950,000

 

0

 

 

 

 

 

$

0

 

Total Other Issues
(identified cost $0)

 

 

 

$

0

 

 

Short-Term Investments — 1.0%

Security

 

Interest
(000’s omitted)

 

Value

 

Investment in Cash Management Portfolio, 4.86% (5)

 

21,984

 

$

21,984,402

 

Total Short-Term Investments
(identified cost $21,984,402)

 

 

 

$

21,984,402

 

Total Investments — 134.3%
(identified cost $2,145,681,870)

 

 

 

$

2,918,111,346

 

Other Assets, Less Liabilities — 0.2%

 

 

 

$

4,393,857

 

Auction Preferred Shares Plus Cumulative Unpaid
Dividends — (34.5%)

 

 

 

$

(750,452,916

)

Net Assets — 100.0%

 

 

 

$

2,172,052,287

 

 

ADR

American Depository Receipt

(1)

 

Non-income producing security.

(2)

 

Security valued at fair value using methods determined in good faith by or at the direction of the Trustees.

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(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 July 31, 2007, the aggregate value of the securities is $150,856,069 or 6.9% of the net assets.

(4)

 

Variable rate security. The stated interest rate represents the rate in effect at July 31, 2007.

(5)

 

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 July 31, 2007. Net income allocated from this investment for the three months ended July 31, 2007 was $184,390.

 

Country Concentration of Portfolio

Country

 

Percentage
of Investment

 

Value

 

United States

 

44.3

%

$

1,293,206,247

 

United Kingdom

 

17.2

 

501,072,403

 

France

 

11.4

 

332,762,420

 

Germany

 

7.2

 

209,675,442

 

Switzerland

 

4.6

 

133,395,348

 

Canada

 

3.6

 

103,768,320

 

Norway

 

2.4

 

70,447,414

 

Italy

 

2.0

 

57,728,744

 

Bermuda

 

1.7

 

50,060,704

 

Netherlands

 

1.2

 

35,975,110

 

Other Countries, less than 1% each

 

4.4

 

130,019,194

 

 

 

100.0

%

$

2,918,111,346

 

 

The Fund did not have any open financial instruments at July 31, 2007.

The cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in value of investments owned by the Fund at July 31, 2007, as computed on a federal income tax basis, were as follows:

Aggregate cost

 

$

2,145,953,352

 

Gross unrealized appreciation

 

$

836,464,086

 

Gross unrealized depreciation

 

(64,306,092

)

Net unrealized appreciation

 

$

772,157,994

 

 

The net unrealized appreciation on foreign currency at July 31, 2007 was $75,688.

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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 Income Fund

By:

 

/s/ Duncan W. Richardson

 

 

Duncan W. Richardson

 

 

President and Principal Executive Officer

Date:

 

September 20, 2007

 

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 and Principal Executive Officer

Date:

 

September 20, 2007

By:

 

/s/ Barbara E. Campbell

 

 

Barbara E. Campbell

 

 

Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer

Date:

 

September 20, 2007