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)

Alan R. Dynner, Esq.
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, 2007

 

 




Item 1. Schedule of Investments




Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Opportunities Fund                                    as of January 31, 2007

PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited)

Common Stocks — 114.3%

Security

 

Shares

 

Value

 

Commercial Banks 9.9%

 

 

 

 

 

Bank of Nova Scotia

 

200,000

 

$

8,636,000

 

Barclays PLC

 

800,000

 

11,629,006

 

Danske Bank A/S

 

250,000

 

11,481,508

 

Lloyds TSB Group PLC

 

1,100,000

 

12,590,396

 

 

 

 

 

$

44,336,910

 

Commercial Services & Supplies 0.3%

 

 

 

 

 

Biffa PLC

 

200,000

 

$

1,280,139

 

 

 

 

 

$

1,280,139

 

Computer Peripherals 2.2%

 

 

 

 

 

International Business Machines Corp.

 

100,000

 

$

9,915,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

9,915,000

 

Diversified Financial Services 3.1%

 

 

 

 

 

Citigroup, Inc.

 

250,000

 

$

13,782,500

 

 

 

 

 

$

13,782,500

 

Diversified Telecommunication Services 5.3%

 

 

 

 

 

AT&T, Inc.

 

350,000

 

$

13,170,500

 

Telefonos de Mexico SA ADR

 

200,000

 

6,140,000

 

Verizon Communications, Inc.

 

110,000

 

4,237,200

 

 

 

 

 

$

23,547,700

 

Electric Utilities 10.4%

 

 

 

 

 

Edison International

 

100,000

 

$

4,498,000

 

Entergy Corp.

 

125,000

 

11,606,250

 

Exelon Corp.

 

200,000

 

11,998,000

 

Fortum Oyj

 

150,000

 

4,126,118

 

Scottish Power PLC

 

992,063

 

14,562,793

 

 

 

 

 

$

46,791,161

 

Energy Equipment & Services 3.5%

 

 

 

 

 

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc.

 

80,000

 

$

6,755,200

 

Halliburton Co.

 

300,000

 

8,862,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

15,617,200

 

Food Products 2.0%

 

 

 

 

 

Nestle SA ADR

 

100,000

 

$

9,141,090

 

 

 

 

 

$

9,141,090

 

Health Care Providers & Services 2.2%

 

 

 

 

 

Health Management Associates, Inc.

 

500,000

 

$

9,725,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

9,725,000

 

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Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure 1.7%

 

 

 

 

 

Compass Group PLC

 

1,250,000

 

$

7,442,106

 

 

 

 

 

$

7,442,106

 

Household Products 1.4%

 

 

 

 

 

Kimberly-Clark de Mexico SA de CV

 

1,500,000

 

$

6,439,780

 

 

 

 

 

$

6,439,780

 

Industrial Conglomerates 0.6%

 

 

 

 

 

Siemens AG ADR

 

25,000

 

$

2,768,250

 

 

 

 

 

$

2,768,250

 

Insurance 0.0%

 

 

 

 

 

Fidelity National Financial, Inc.

 

1

 

$

24

 

 

 

 

 

$

24

 

Machinery 1.4%

 

 

 

 

 

Caterpillar, Inc.

 

100,000

 

$

6,407,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

6,407,000

 

Metals & Mining 18.0%

 

 

 

 

 

Anglo American PLC ADR

 

250,000

 

$

5,837,500

 

BHP Billiton, Ltd. ADR

 

250,000

 

10,247,500

 

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

 

225,000

 

12,939,750

 

Mittal Steel Co. NV, Class A

 

150,000

 

7,135,500

 

Phelps Dodge Corp.

 

75,000

 

9,270,000

 

Rio Tinto PLC ADR

 

50,000

 

10,810,500

 

Southern Copper Corp.

 

200,000

 

12,500,000

 

ThyssenKrupp AG

 

250,000

 

11,864,060

 

 

 

 

 

$

80,604,810

 

Multiline Retail 1.8%

 

 

 

 

 

J.C. Penney Company, Inc.

 

100,000

 

$

8,124,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

8,124,000

 

Multi-Utilities 5.9%

 

 

 

 

 

Dominion Resources, Inc.

 

150,000

 

$

12,444,000

 

Veolia Environnement

 

200,000

 

14,031,729

 

 

 

 

 

$

26,475,729

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels 24.2%

 

 

 

 

 

BP PLC ADR

 

100,000

 

$

6,351,000

 

ChevronTexaco Corp.

 

200,000

 

14,576,000

 

Enbridge, Inc.

 

400,000

 

12,880,000

 

Exxon Mobil Corp.

 

100,000

 

7,410,000

 

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

 

300,000

 

13,908,000

 

Peabody Energy Corp.

 

100,000

 

4,083,000

 

Statoil ASA

 

425,000

 

11,375,959

 

Suncor Energy, Inc.

 

175,000

 

13,011,250

 

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Total SA ADR

 

200,000

 

$

13,610,000

 

Valero Energy Corp.

 

200,000

 

10,856,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

108,061,209

 

Pharmaceuticals 3.1%

 

 

 

 

 

AstraZeneca PLC ADR

 

100,000

 

$

5,595,000

 

GlaxoSmithKline PLC ADR

 

150,000

 

8,119,500

 

 

 

 

 

$

13,714,500

 

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) 7.1%

 

 

 

 

 

AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

 

25,000

 

$

3,709,000

 

Boston Properties, Inc.

 

25,000

 

3,152,250

 

Federal Realty Investment Trust

 

50,000

 

4,671,000

 

Plum Creek Timber Co., Inc.

 

175,000

 

7,043,750

 

Public Storage, Inc.

 

75,000

 

8,157,000

 

Rayonier, Inc.

 

112,500

 

4,860,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

31,593,000

 

Specialty Retail 1.6%

 

 

 

 

 

Kingfisher PLC

 

1,500,000

 

$

7,041,525

 

 

 

 

 

$

7,041,525

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods 1.7%

 

 

 

 

 

VF Corp.

 

100,000

 

$

7,587,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

7,587,000

 

Thrifts & Mortgage Finance 1.0%

 

 

 

 

 

Washington Mutual, Inc.

 

100,000

 

$

4,459,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

4,459,000

 

Tobacco 5.1%

 

 

 

 

 

Altria Group, Inc.

 

100,000

 

$

8,739,000

 

Imperial Tobacco Group PLC

 

350,000

 

14,188,297

 

 

 

 

 

$

22,927,297

 

Water Utilities 0.8%

 

 

 

 

 

Severn Trent PLC

 

133,333

 

$

3,696,332

 

 

 

 

 

$

3,696,332

 

Total Common Stocks
(identified cost $343,547,230)

 

 

 

$

511,478,262

 

 

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Preferred Stocks — 15.3%

Security

 

Shares

 

Value

 

Commercial Banks 7.9%

 

 

 

 

 

Abbey National Capital Trust I, 8.963% (1)(2)(4)

 

20,000

 

$

2,674,626

 

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

 

950

 

1,023,625

 

BNP Paribas Capital Trust, 9.003% (1)(2)(3)

 

70,000

 

7,839,839

 

CA Preferred Fund Trust, 7.00% (1)(4)

 

55,000

 

5,592,796

 

First Republic Bank, 6.70%

 

30,000

 

777,000

 

HSBC Capital Funding LP, 9.547% (1)(2)(3)(4)

 

70,000

 

7,903,434

 

Lloyds TSB Bank PLC, 6.90% (1)(4)

 

40,000

 

4,078,872

 

Standard Chartered PLC 6.409% Dtd 12/8/06 Due 1/30/17 (1)(3)(4)

 

50,000

 

4,965,175

 

US Bancorp, Series B, 5.974% (2)

 

15,000

 

398,250

 

 

 

 

 

$

35,253,617

 

Diversified Financial Services 0.5%

 

 

 

 

 

ING Group NV, 6.125%

 

35,000

 

$

882,000

 

ING Group NV, 7.20%

 

30,000

 

765,300

 

Santander Finance UNIP (3)

 

28,500

 

718,736

 

 

 

 

 

$

2,366,036

 

Food Products 0.8%

 

 

 

 

 

Dairy Farmers of America, 7.875% (3)

 

33,750

 

$

3,432,777

 

 

 

 

 

$

3,432,777

 

Gas Utilities 0.2%

 

 

 

 

 

Southern Union Co., 7.55%

 

40,000

 

$

1,028,400

 

 

 

 

 

$

1,028,400

 

Insurance 5.2%

 

 

 

 

 

Aegon NV, 6.375%

 

80,000

 

$

2,066,400

 

Aegon NV, 6.50%

 

15,000

 

387,450

 

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

 

15,000

 

389,250

 

Axa SA, 6.463% (1)(2)(3)

 

10,000

 

987,137

 

AXA, 7.10% (1)

 

45,000

 

4,617,994

 

Endurance Specialty Holdings, Ltd., 7.75%

 

18,750

 

490,312

 

MetLife, Inc., 6.50%

 

120,000

 

3,205,200

 

PartnerRe, Ltd., 6.50%

 

120,000

 

3,031,200

 

Prudential PLC, 6.50% (1)

 

18,000

 

1,827,918

 

RenaissanceRe Holdings, Ltd., 6.08%

 

148,000

 

3,559,400

 

Zurich Regcaps Fund Trust V, 6.084% (2)(3)

 

2,500

 

2,532,813

 

 

 

 

 

$

23,095,074

 

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Thrifts & Mortgage Finance 0.7%

 

 

 

 

 

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Series S, 5.864% (2)

 

2,500

 

$

131,250

 

Federal National Mortgage Association, Series K, 5.396% (2)

 

60,000

 

3,030,000

 

 

 

 

 

$

3,161,250

 

Total Preferred Stocks
(identified cost $67,639,692)

 

 

 

$

68,337,154

 

 

Other Issues — 0.0%

Type of Contract

 

Shares

 

Value

 

Scottish Power PLC, Deferred Shares (1)

 

416,666

 

$

0

 

Total Other Issues
(identified cost $0)

 

 

 

$

0

 

 

Short-Term Investments — 2.7%

Description

 

Shares/
Interest
(000's omitted)

 

Value

 

Investment in Cash Management Portfolio, 4.73% (5)

 

$

11,982

 

$

11,982,243

 

Total Short-Term Investments
(at amortized cost, $11,982,243)

 

 

 

$

11,982,243

 

Total Investments 132.3%
(identified cost $423,169,165)

 

 

 

$

591,797,659

 

Other Assets, Less Liabilities 0.1%

 

 

 

$

576,402

 

Auction Preferred Shares Plus Cumulative
Unpaid Dividends — (32.4%)

 

 

 

(145,023,639

)

Net Assets 100.0%

 

 

 

$

447,350,422

 

 

ADR

American Depository Receipt

REIT

Real Estate Investment Trust

(1)

 

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

(2)

 

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

(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, 2007, the aggregate value of the securities is $29,403,536 or 6.6% of the Fund's net assets.

(4)

 

Non-income producing security.

(5)

 

Affiliated investment investing in high quality U.S. Dollar denominated money market investments, and that is available to Eaton Vance portfolios and funds. The rate shown is the annualized seven-day yield as of January 31, 2007.

 

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Country Concentration of Portfolio

Country

 

Percentage
of Total Investments

 

Value

 

United States

 

51.2

%

$

303,094,240

 

United Kingdom

 

20.3

%

120,016,059

 

Canada

 

5.8

%

34,527,250

 

France

 

5.6

%

33,246,861

 

Germany

 

2.5

%

14,632,311

 

Mexico

 

2.1

%

12,579,780

 

Denmark

 

2.0

%

11,481,508

 

Norway

 

1.9

%

11,375,959

 

Netherlands

 

1.9

%

11,236,650

 

Australia

 

1.7

%

10,247,500

 

Switzerland

 

1.6

%

9,141,090

 

Jersey

 

1.3

%

7,903,434

 

Bermuda

 

1.3

%

7,470,163

 

Other Countries, less than 1.0%

 

0.8

%

4,844,854

 

 

 

100.0

%

$

591,797,659

 

 

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

The cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments of the Fund at January 31, 2007, as determined on a federal income tax basis, were as follows:

Aggregate cost

 

$

423,401,407

 

Gross unrealized appreciation

 

$

169,301,982

 

Gross unrealized depreciation

 

(905,730

)

Net unrealized appreciation

 

$

168,396,252

 

 

The net unrealized depreciation on foreign currency as of January 31, 2007 was $2,289

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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 Opportunities Fund

By:

 

/s/ Duncan W. Richardson

 

 

Duncan W. Richardson

 

 

President and Principal Executive Officer

Date:

 

March 16, 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:

 

March 16, 2007

 

By:

 

/s/ Barbara E. Campbell

 

 

Barbara E. Campbell

 

 

Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer

Date:

 

March 16, 2007