Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportuni
 
 
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form N-CSR
CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED
MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES
Investment Company Act File Number: 811-21745
Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
Two International Place, Boston, Massachusetts 02110
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
Maureen A. Gemma
Two International Place, Boston, Massachusetts 02110
(Name and Address of Agent for Services)
(617) 482-8260
(Registrant’s Telephone Number)
December 31
Date of Fiscal Year End
December 31, 2010
Date of Reporting Period
 
 

 


 

Item 1. Reports to Stockholders

 


 

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IMPORTANT NOTICES
 
Managed Distribution Plan. On March 10, 2009, the Fund received authorization from the Securities and Exchange Commission to distribute long-term capital gains to shareholders more frequently than once per year. In this connection, the Board of Trustees formally approved the implementation of a Managed Distribution Plan (MDP) to make quarterly cash distributions to common shareholders, stated in terms of a fixed amount per common share.
 
The Fund intends to pay quarterly cash distributions equal to $0.3024 per share. You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund’s investment performance from the amount of these distributions or from the terms of the MDP. The MDP will be subject to regular periodic review by the Fund’s Board of Trustees.
 
With each distribution, the Fund will issue a notice to shareholders and an accompanying press release which will provide detailed information required by the Fund’s exemptive order. The Fund’s Board of Trustees may amend or terminate the MDP at any time without prior notice to Fund shareholders. However, at this time there are no reasonably foreseeable circumstances that might cause the termination of the MDP.
 
 
 
 
Delivery of Shareholder Documents. The Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) permits funds to deliver only one copy of shareholder documents, including prospectuses, proxy statements and shareholder reports, to fund investors with multiple accounts at the same residential or post office box address. This practice is often called “householding” and it helps eliminate duplicate mailings to shareholders.
 
Eaton Vance, or your financial adviser, may household the mailing of your documents indefinitely unless you instruct Eaton Vance, or your financial adviser, otherwise. If you would prefer that your Eaton Vance documents not be householded, please contact Eaton Vance at 1-800-262-1122, or contact your financial adviser. Your instructions that householding not apply to delivery of your Eaton Vance documents will be effective within 30 days of receipt by Eaton Vance or your financial adviser.
 
 
 
 
Portfolio Holdings. Each Eaton Vance Fund and its underlying Portfolio(s) (if applicable) will file a schedule of portfolio holdings on Form N-Q with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year. The Form N-Q will be available on the Eaton Vance website at www.eatonvance.com, by calling Eaton Vance at 1-800-262-1122 or in the EDGAR database on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Form N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s public reference room in Washington, D.C. (call 1-800-732-0330 for information on the operation of the public reference room).
 
 
 
 
Proxy Voting. From time to time, funds are required to vote proxies related to the securities held by the funds. The Eaton Vance Funds or their underlying Portfolios (if applicable) vote proxies according to a set of policies and procedures approved by the Funds’ and Portfolios’ Boards. You may obtain a description of these policies and procedures and information on how the Funds or Portfolios voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12 month period ended June 30, without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-262-1122. This description is also available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
 
 
 
 
Additional Notice to Shareholders. The Fund may purchase shares of its common stock in the open market when they trade at a discount to net asset value or at other times if the Fund determines such purchases are advisable. There can be no assurance that the Fund will take such action or that such purchases would reduce the discount.
 
Please refer to the inside back cover of this report for an important notice about
the privacy policies adopted by the Eaton Vance organization.
 


 

Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION OF FUND PERFORMANCE
Economic and Market Conditions
(PHOTO OF WALTER A. ROW)
Walter A. Row, CFA
       Eaton Vance
       Management
Co-Portfolio Manager
(PHOTO OF THOMAS SETO )
       Thomas Seto
Parametric Portfolio
     Associates LLC
Co-Portfolio Manager
(PHOTO OF DAVID STEIN)
   David Stein, Ph.D.
  Parametric Portfolio
    Associates LLC
Co-Portfolio Manager
U.S. and foreign equities both finished 2010 with positive returns. The year overall was bracketed by solid quarters at both ends, with some weakness in the middle. The weakness came as a variety of concerns – including a European credit crisis, an overheating Chinese economy and U.S. political uncertainties – caused a spike in volatility at midyear.
The year ended on a decidedly higher note, however, particularly in the U.S., as equity investors seemed encouraged by the continued modest growth of the economy and by ongoing signs of improvements in corporate business fundamentals. Investment flows started to favor equities over bonds as longer-term interest rates began to rise toward year-end.
The U.S. market, as represented by the S&P 500 Index, rose 15.06% for the year ended December 31, 2010. Markets in the other developed economies of the world put up a somewhat lower average return, but still managed a 7.75% gain for the year, as measured by the MSCI EAFE Index. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index, meanwhile, advanced a more-robust 18.88%.1 In the U.S., growth indices outperformed value indices across all market capitalizations, and small-and mid-cap stocks outperformed large-caps by wide margins, although all of the corresponding indices were firmly anchored in positive territory.
Management Discussion
  The Fund is a closed-end fund that trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol “ETW.” At net asset value (NAV) for the year ending December 31, 2010, the Fund underperformed the S&P 500 Index and its Lipper peer group, but it outpaced the CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index, the FTSE Eurotop 100 Index and the CBOE NASDAQ-100 BuyWrite Index.2 The Fund’s market price traded at an 8.03% discount to NAV as of period end.
 
  The Fund’s primary objective is to provide current income and gains, with a secondary objective of capital appreciation. Under normal market conditions, the Fund pursues its investment objectives by investing in a diversified portfolio of common stocks, including stocks of U.S. issuers (the “U.S. Segment”) and stocks of non-U.S. issuers (the “International Segment”). The Fund seeks to generate current earnings in part by employing an options strategy of writing (selling)
                 
Total Return Performance 12/31/09 – 12/31/10            
NYSE Symbol           ETW
At Net Asset Value (NAV)
            8.24 %
At Market Price
            - 0.81 %
 
               
S&P 500 Index2
            15.06 %
CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index2
            5.86 %
CBOE NASDAQ-100 BuyWrite Index2
            6.11 %
FTSE Eurotop 100 Index2
            0.53 %
Lipper Options Arbitrage/Options Strategies Funds Average2
            11.58 %
 
               
Premium/(Discount) to NAV (12/31/10)
            (8.03 )%
Total Distributions per share
          $ 1.472  
Distribution Rate3
At NAV     9.08 %
 
At Market Price     9.87 %
See page 3 for more performance information.
 
1   Source: MSCI. MSCI data may not be reproduced or used for any other purpose. MSCI provides no warranties, has not prepared or approved this report, and has no liability hereunder.
 
2   It is not possible to invest directly in an Index or a Lipper Classification. The Indices’ total returns do not reflect commissions or expenses that would have been incurred if an investor individually purchased or sold the securities represented in the Indices. The return for the FTSE Eurotop 100 Index is calculated in U.S. dollars. The Lipper total return is the average total return, at net asset value, of the funds that are in the same Lipper Classification as the Fund.
 
3   The Distribution Rate is based on the Fund’s last regular distribution per share in the period (annualized) divided by the Fund’s NAV or market price at the end of the period. The Fund’s distributions may be comprised of ordinary income, net realized capital gains and return of capital.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value or market price (as applicable) with all distributions reinvested. The Fund’s performance at market price will differ from its results at NAV. Although market price performance generally reflects investment results over time, during shorter periods, returns at market price can also be affected by factors such as changing perceptions about the Fund, market conditions, fluctuations in supply and demand for the Fund’s shares, or changes in Fund distributions. The Fund has no current intention to utilize leverage, but may do so in the future through borrowings and other permitted methods. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance is for the stated time period only; due to market volatility, the Fund’s current performance may be lower or higher than the quoted return. For performance as of the most recent month end, please refer to www.eatonvance.com.

    Fund shares are not insured by the FDIC and are not deposits or other obligations of, or guaranteed by, any depository institution. Shares are subject to investment risks, including possible loss of principal invested.

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Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION OF FUND PERFORMANCE
    index call options on a substantial portion of the value of the Fund’s total assets. During the year ending December 31, 2010 – a period in which the S&P 500 Index performed in excess of historical norms – the index option overlay program prevented the Fund from attaining greater upside market capture. For the year, the S&P 500 moved in excess of the monthly call strikes by more than the premiums received, resulting in an overall option loss. At net asset value, however, the Fund did outperform its option benchmarks, the CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index and the CBOE NASDAQ-100 BuyWrite Index.
 
  In addition to the dampening effect of the option strategy, the Fund’s performance lagged the S&P 500 in large part due to its exposure to foreign stocks, particularly those in the eurozone, where performance was weak during the 12-month period. At the same time, however, the Fund’s exposure to U.S. stocks, which fared considerably better during the year, helped it outperform the FTSE Eurotop 100 Index.
 
  As of December 31, 2010, the Fund held a diversified portfolio that encompassed holdings across a broad range of the U.S. economy, as well as a variety of foreign countries. The Fund’s investments in the U.S. Segment constituted approximately 53% of total investments, with the remaining portion invested in the International Segment.
 
  Among the Fund’s common stock holdings, its largest sector weightings were in information technology (IT), financials and consumer discretionary. Security selection within the commercial banks, oil/gas and consumable fuels, and diversified telecommunication services industries detracted from performance versus the S&P 500. Several of the Fund’s holdings in the IT sector, especially within the computers/peripherals, IT services and Internet software/services industries, contributed positively to performance.
 
  The Fund had written call options on approximately 99% of its equity holdings as of December 31, 2010. The Fund seeks current earnings in part from option premiums, which can vary with investors’ expectations of the future volatility (“implied volatility”) of the Fund’s underlying assets. During the first and last calendar quarters of 2010, there were relatively low levels of implied volatility, with correspondingly low levels of actual volatility in the equity markets. Volatility levels increased, however, at times during the second and early third calendar quarters.
 
  On December 14, 2010, the Fund announced a change in its quarterly distribution rate, effective with its December 31, 2010, distribution payment. The Fund’s portfolio management team reviews the level and sustainability of the Fund’s distributions periodically. Before deciding to decrease the amount of the Fund’s distribution to $0.3024 per share, the team considered several factors including the current market outlook and volatility environment, the dividend yield of the underlying equity portfolio and the level of other income yielding assets in the marketplace. The portfolio management team believes a reduction in the Fund’s distributions will help strike a greater balance in the delivery of total return, including both distributions and the opportunity for capital appreciation. As portfolio and market conditions change, the rate of distributions paid by the Fund could be further changed.
Country Allocation1
(PERFORMANCE GRAPH)
 
1   As a percentage of the Fund’s total investments as of 12/31/10.

The views expressed throughout this report are those of the portfolio managers and are current only through the end of the period of the report as stated on the cover. These views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions, and the investment adviser disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a fund are based on many factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Eaton Vance fund. Portfolio information provided in the report may not be representative of the Fund’s current or future investments and may change due to active management.

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Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
FUND PERFORMANCE
Fund Performance
         
NYSE Symbol   ETW
 
Average Annual Total Returns (at market price, NYSE)
       
 
One Year
    -0.81 %
Five Years
    5.15  
Life of Fund (9/30/05)
    3.33  
 
       
Average Annual Total Returns (at net asset value)
       
 
One Year
    8.24 %
Five Years
    5.25  
Life of Fund (9/30/05)
    4.99  
Fund Composition
Top 10 Holdings1
         
By total investments
       
 
Apple, Inc.
    5.6 %
Microsoft Corp.
    1.8  
Nestle SA
    1.7  
Google, Inc., Class A
    1.5  
QUALCOMM, Inc.
    1.5  
Exxon Mobil Corp.
    1.2  
Oracle Corp.
    1.1  
Siemens AG
    1.1  
Novartis AG
    1.0  
Total SA
    1.0  
 
1   Top 10 Holdings represented 17.5% of the Fund’s total investments as of 12/31/10. The Top 10 Holdings do not reflect the Fund’s written option positions at 12/31/10.
Sector Weightings2
(PERFORMANCE GRAPH)
 
2   As a percentage of the Fund’s total investments as of 12/31/10. Sector Weightings do not reflect the Fund’s written option positions at 12/31/10.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value or market price (as applicable) with all distributions reinvested. The Fund’s performance at market price will differ from its results at NAV. Although market price performance generally reflects investment results over time, during shorter periods, returns at market price can also be affected by factors such as changing perceptions about the Fund, market conditions, fluctuations in supply and demand for the Fund’s shares, or changes in Fund distributions. The Fund has no current intention to utilize leverage, but may do so in the future through borrowings and other permitted methods. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance is for the stated time period only; due to market volatility, the Fund’s current performance may be lower or higher than the quoted return. For performance as of the most recent month end, please refer to www.eatonvance.com.

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Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
 
PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS
 
                     
Common Stocks — 100.5%
 
Security   Shares     Value      
 
 
 
Aerospace & Defense — 1.0%
 
European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co.(1)
    56,122     $ 1,309,600      
General Dynamics Corp.
    33,624       2,385,959      
Honeywell International, Inc.
    59,872       3,182,795      
Raytheon Co.
    78,667       3,645,429      
Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    25,533       1,487,553      
Rolls-Royce Group PLC(1)
    272,487       2,654,919      
 
 
            $ 14,666,255      
 
 
 
 
Air Freight & Logistics — 0.7%
 
CH Robinson Worldwide, Inc.
    56,332     $ 4,517,263      
Deutsche Post AG
    82,457       1,398,890      
Expeditors International of Washington, Inc.
    73,976       4,039,090      
 
 
            $ 9,955,243      
 
 
 
 
Airlines — 0.1%
 
British Airways PLC(1)
    483,403     $ 2,060,520      
 
 
            $ 2,060,520      
 
 
 
 
Auto Components — 0.6%
 
Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd.
    10,200     $ 359,412      
Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin
    26,277       1,886,298      
Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.
    23,193       546,891      
Dana Holding Corp.(1)
    34,606       595,569      
Denso Corp.
    60,300       2,073,044      
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (The)(1)
    31,887       377,861      
Johnson Controls, Inc.
    73,134       2,793,719      
Toyota Boshoku Corp.
    11,900       209,219      
Toyota Industries Corp.
    8,600       266,078      
 
 
            $ 9,108,091      
 
 
 
 
Automobiles — 1.3%
 
Daimler AG(1)
    132,059     $ 8,935,694      
Ford Motor Co.(1)
    75,528       1,268,115      
Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    108,000       4,262,629      
Isuzu Motors, Ltd.
    116,000       524,171      
Mazda Motor Corp.
    146,000       416,458      
Suzuki Motor Corp.
    52,800       1,296,177      
Toyota Motor Corp.
    50,407       1,984,445      
Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.(1)
    18,800       305,081      
 
 
            $ 18,992,770      
 
 
 
Beverages — 1.3%
 
Carlsberg A/S, Class B
    8,450     $ 848,172      
Coca-Cola Co. (The)
    86,770       5,706,863      
Coca-Cola West Co., Ltd.
    26,200       474,255      
Constellation Brands, Inc., Class A(1)
    33,994       752,967      
Heineken Holding NV
    24,773       1,077,357      
Heineken NV
    30,199       1,481,151      
Kirin Holdings Co., Ltd.
    90,000       1,258,744      
PepsiCo, Inc.
    78,946       5,157,542      
Pernod-Ricard SA
    15,528       1,461,629      
Sapporo Holdings, Ltd.
    128,000       578,157      
 
 
            $ 18,796,837      
 
 
 
 
Biotechnology — 2.0%
 
Amgen, Inc.(1)
    146,962     $ 8,068,214      
Biogen Idec, Inc.(1)
    65,997       4,425,099      
BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc.(1)
    19,589       527,532      
Celgene Corp.(1)
    124,687       7,373,989      
Gilead Sciences, Inc.(1)
    169,876       6,156,306      
Martek Biosciences Corp.(1)
    33,316       1,042,791      
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.(1)
    23,758       779,975      
 
 
            $ 28,373,906      
 
 
 
 
Building Products — 0.3%
 
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.
    96,776     $ 1,125,488      
Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    63,300       2,236,110      
Masco Corp.
    59,062       747,725      
 
 
            $ 4,109,323      
 
 
 
 
Capital Markets — 1.9%
 
Affiliated Managers Group, Inc.(1)
    5,077     $ 503,740      
Artio Global Investors, Inc.
    28,136       415,006      
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (The)
    54,215       1,637,293      
Charles Schwab Corp. (The)
    66,662       1,140,587      
Deutsche Bank AG
    134,582       7,038,049      
Duff & Phelps Corp., Class A
    30,762       518,647      
Franklin Resources, Inc.
    19,250       2,140,792      
GAM Holding, Ltd.(1)
    58,376       964,939      
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The)
    20,456       3,439,881      
ICAP PLC
    178,286       1,490,752      
Julius Baer Group, Ltd.
    76,144       3,565,294      
Man Group PLC
    355,866       1,650,118      
Matsui Securities Co., Ltd.
    66,800       473,154      
Mediobanca SpA
    87,467       780,173      
Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.
    105,000       299,409      
SBI Holdings, Inc.
    1,116       168,295      

 
See notes to financial statements

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Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
 
PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS CONT’D
 
                     
Security   Shares     Value      
 
 
Capital Markets (continued)
 
                     
State Street Corp.
    11,567     $ 536,015      
 
 
            $ 26,762,144      
 
 
 
 
Chemicals — 2.0%
 
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    37,115     $ 3,375,609      
Akzo Nobel NV
    18,556       1,154,497      
BASF SE
    66,034       5,269,671      
Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    51,000       371,124      
Dow Chemical Co. (The)
    80,264       2,740,213      
Eastman Chemical Co.
    11,375       956,410      
Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.
    16,800       346,239      
Johnson Matthey PLC
    85,911       2,737,128      
Kaneka Corp.
    57,000       393,821      
Linde AG
    19,853       3,003,328      
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co., Inc.
    55,000       389,015      
Monsanto Co.
    29,335       2,042,889      
Nitto Denko Corp.
    5,900       276,715      
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    58,200       3,136,780      
Showa Denko KK
    236,000       529,450      
Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
    160,000       785,440      
Toray Industries, Inc.
    56,000       333,845      
Tosoh Corp.
    173,000       560,236      
Wacker Chemie AG
    4,842       844,177      
 
 
            $ 29,246,587      
 
 
 
 
Commercial Banks — 5.7%
 
Banco Popolare SC
    182,477     $ 828,274      
Banco Santander SA
    1,132,101       12,063,383      
Barclays PLC
    1,085,798       4,487,499      
BNP Paribas
    130,141       8,288,177      
Fifth Third Bancorp
    152,511       2,238,861      
Gunma Bank, Ltd. (The)
    106,000       580,218      
Hachijuni Bank, Ltd. (The)
    89,000       495,885      
Hiroshima Bank, Ltd. (The)
    87,000       365,894      
HSBC Holdings PLC
    1,235,349       12,625,478      
IBERIABANK Corp.
    13,247       783,295      
Intesa Sanpaolo SpA
    1,486,339       4,040,792      
Lloyds Banking Group PLC(1)
    3,975,334       4,103,755      
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.
    401,941       753,990      
Natixis(1)
    165,993       776,471      
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
    37,644       2,285,744      
Regions Financial Corp.
    114,022       798,154      
Shinsei Bank, Ltd.(1)
    390,000       507,585      
Societe Generale
    111,185       5,982,470      
Standard Chartered PLC
    220,000       5,939,063      
Sterling Bancshares, Inc.
    108,059       758,574      
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.
    13,208       467,657      
UniCredit SpA
    2,422,488       5,022,182      
Wells Fargo & Co.
    245,542       7,609,347      
 
 
            $ 81,802,748      
 
 
 
 
Commercial Services & Supplies — 0.7%
 
Avery Dennison Corp.
    23,372     $ 989,571      
Edenred(1)
    26,214       620,552      
SECOM Co., Ltd.
    60,200       2,844,497      
Serco Group PLC
    156,826       1,361,413      
Waste Management, Inc.
    114,399       4,217,891      
 
 
            $ 10,033,924      
 
 
 
 
Communications Equipment — 3.3%
 
Alcatel-Lucent(1)
    613,676     $ 1,795,311      
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.(1)
    67,859       358,974      
Cisco Systems, Inc.(1)
    608,709       12,314,183      
Nokia Oyj
    612,107       6,340,660      
QUALCOMM, Inc.
    425,828       21,074,227      
Research In Motion, Ltd.(1)
    98,383       5,719,004      
 
 
            $ 47,602,359      
 
 
 
 
Computers & Peripherals — 6.4%
 
Apple, Inc.(1)
    248,976     $ 80,309,699      
Dell, Inc.(1)
    321,011       4,349,699      
Hewlett-Packard Co.
    140,078       5,897,284      
NEC Corp.
    258,000       771,936      
 
 
            $ 91,328,618      
 
 
 
 
Construction & Engineering — 0.4%
 
Bouygues SA
    19,011     $ 820,482      
Chiyoda Corp.
    69,000       683,407      
Ferrovial SA
    95,985       958,548      
Fluor Corp.
    9,129       604,887      
Hochtief AG
    11,977       1,015,309      
JGC Corp.
    71,000       1,538,827      
 
 
            $ 5,621,460      
 
 
 
 
Construction Materials — 0.3%
 
Imerys SA
    22,993     $ 1,534,707      
Lafarge SA
    22,039       1,383,526      
Vulcan Materials Co.
    16,770       743,917      
 
 
            $ 3,662,150      
 
 
 

 
See notes to financial statements

5


 

 
Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
 
PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS CONT’D
 
                     
Security   Shares     Value      
 
 
 
Consumer Finance — 0.2%
 
American Express Co.
    45,990     $ 1,973,891      
SLM Corp.(1)
    50,603       637,092      
 
 
            $ 2,610,983      
 
 
 
 
Containers & Packaging — 0.1%
 
Sealed Air Corp.
    14,782     $ 376,202      
Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.
    68,100       1,290,104      
 
 
            $ 1,666,306      
 
 
 
 
Distributors — 0.3%
 
Canon Marketing Japan, Inc.
    14,600     $ 207,388      
Genuine Parts Co.
    56,294       2,890,134      
LKQ Corp.(1)
    34,742       789,338      
 
 
            $ 3,886,860      
 
 
 
 
Diversified Financial Services — 1.6%
 
Bank of America Corp.
    485,348     $ 6,474,542      
Citigroup, Inc.(1)
    830,235       3,927,012      
CME Group, Inc.
    1,702       547,619      
Compagnie Nationale a Portefeuille
    17,116       837,535      
Criteria Caixacorp SA
    267,829       1,430,463      
Deutsche Boerse AG
    36,045       2,490,371      
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
    154,746       6,564,325      
Moody’s Corp.
    18,539       492,025      
ORIX Corp.
    4,130       404,637      
 
 
            $ 23,168,529      
 
 
 
 
Diversified Telecommunication Services — 2.7%
 
AT&T, Inc.
    258,166     $ 7,584,917      
Deutsche Telekom AG
    325,887       4,201,050      
France Telecom SA
    222,265       4,651,052      
Frontier Communications Corp.
    295,887       2,878,981      
Telefonica SA
    512,662       11,704,012      
Verizon Communications, Inc.
    161,847       5,790,886      
Windstream Corp.
    133,199       1,856,794      
 
 
            $ 38,667,692      
 
 
 
 
Electric Utilities — 1.6%
 
Duke Energy Corp.
    144,296     $ 2,569,912      
E.ON AG
    274,138       8,371,798      
EDF SA
    41,600       1,708,400      
Edison International
    51,169       1,975,123      
Enel SpA
    692,425       3,469,752      
Hokkaido Electric Power Co., Inc.
    13,500       275,680      
Iberdrola SA
    494,257       3,832,248      
Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc.
    7,400       165,671      
Shikoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
    8,200       240,860      
 
 
            $ 22,609,444      
 
 
 
 
Electrical Equipment — 1.0%
 
ABB, Ltd.(1)
    422,425     $ 9,431,858      
Cooper Industries PLC, Class A
    21,762       1,268,507      
Fujikura, Ltd.
    87,000       437,613      
GS Yuasa Corp.
    82,000       565,386      
Legrand SA
    47,726       1,946,730      
Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd.
    5,000       257,018      
 
 
            $ 13,907,112      
 
 
 
 
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components — 0.9%
 
Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    82,200     $ 948,657      
Corning, Inc.
    39,985       772,510      
Keyence Corp.
    1,110       320,274      
Kyocera Corp.
    54,934       5,581,150      
Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.
    96,000       1,377,975      
Omron Corp.
    16,500       434,835      
TDK Corp.
    56,200       3,891,078      
Yaskawa Electric Corp.
    27,000       254,230      
 
 
            $ 13,580,709      
 
 
 
 
Energy Equipment & Services — 0.9%
 
CGGVeritas(1)
    31,600     $ 964,653      
Halliburton Co.
    130,037       5,309,411      
Schlumberger, Ltd.
    62,861       5,248,893      
Technip SA
    9,124       843,358      
 
 
            $ 12,366,315      
 
 
 
 
Food & Staples Retailing — 1.9%
 
Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA
    11,211     $ 1,093,896      
CVS Caremark Corp.
    172,603       6,001,406      
Delhaize Group SA
    27,344       2,022,169      
Koninklijke Ahold NV
    134,328       1,774,493      
Kroger Co. (The)
    47,687       1,066,282      
Metro AG
    26,403       1,905,669      
Safeway, Inc.
    20,063       451,217      
Seven & i Holdings Co., Ltd.
    72,300       1,923,479      
Sysco Corp.
    78,426       2,305,725      

 
See notes to financial statements

6


 

 
Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
 
PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS CONT’D
 
                     
Security   Shares     Value      
 
 
Food & Staples Retailing (continued)
 
                     
UNY Co., Ltd.
    64,000     $ 644,536      
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
    137,369       7,408,310      
 
 
            $ 26,597,182      
 
 
 
 
Food Products — 2.8%
 
Campbell Soup Co.
    17,968     $ 624,388      
ConAgra Foods, Inc.
    77,043       1,739,631      
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc.(1)
    12,869       422,875      
H.J. Heinz Co.
    47,559       2,352,268      
Kraft Foods, Inc., Class A
    88,500       2,788,635      
Nestle SA
    411,921       24,131,844      
Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd.
    11,700       418,730      
Parmalat SpA
    307,055       842,267      
Toyo Suisan Kaisha, Ltd.
    15,000       333,042      
Unilever NV
    203,126       6,336,998      
Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd.
    19,700       566,391      
 
 
            $ 40,557,069      
 
 
 
 
Gas Utilities — 0.1%
 
Gas Natural SDG SA
    45,614     $ 702,677      
Snam Rete Gas SpA
    175,073       871,814      
 
 
            $ 1,574,491      
 
 
 
 
Health Care Equipment & Supplies — 1.0%
 
Boston Scientific Corp.(1)
    216,231     $ 1,636,869      
Covidien PLC
    51,806       2,365,462      
Edwards Lifesciences Corp.(1)
    14,052       1,135,964      
Hologic, Inc.(1)
    76,941       1,448,029      
Immucor, Inc.(1)
    15,993       317,141      
Medtronic, Inc.
    47,166       1,749,387      
Nobel Biocare Holding AG
    39,100       737,476      
Olympus Corp.
    60,000       1,806,607      
Terumo Corp.
    54,000       3,028,713      
 
 
            $ 14,225,648      
 
 
 
 
Health Care Providers & Services — 0.9%
 
AmerisourceBergen Corp.
    43,561     $ 1,486,301      
DaVita, Inc.(1)
    17,678       1,228,444      
Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings(1)
    16,119       1,417,183      
Lincare Holdings, Inc.
    57,193       1,534,488      
McKesson Corp.
    22,301       1,569,544      
Medco Health Solutions, Inc.(1)
    28,789       1,763,902      
UnitedHealth Group, Inc.
    64,272       2,320,862      
VCA Antech, Inc.(1)
    69,119       1,609,782      
 
 
            $ 12,930,506      
 
 
 
 
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure — 1.5%
 
Accor SA
    26,214     $ 1,168,285      
Bally Technologies, Inc.(1)
    11,183       471,811      
Carnival Corp.
    69,217       3,191,596      
International Game Technology
    42,344       749,065      
Marriott International, Inc., Class A
    38,496       1,599,124      
McDonald’s Corp.
    89,263       6,851,828      
Wynn Resorts, Ltd.
    27,627       2,868,788      
Yum! Brands, Inc.
    83,058       4,073,995      
 
 
            $ 20,974,492      
 
 
 
 
Household Durables — 0.6%
 
Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    85,000     $ 682,234      
Ryland Group, Inc.
    18,520       315,396      
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.(1)
    170,000       275,859      
Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.
    61,000       436,413      
Sony Corp.
    61,700       2,206,678      
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
    48,688       3,255,766      
Whirlpool Corp.
    9,068       805,510      
 
 
            $ 7,977,856      
 
 
 
 
Household Products — 0.9%
 
Clorox Co. (The)
    20,211     $ 1,278,952      
Colgate-Palmolive Co.
    3,997       321,239      
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, PFC Shares
    20,000       1,240,025      
Kimberly-Clark Corp.
    27,342       1,723,640      
Procter & Gamble Co.
    86,363       5,555,732      
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC
    30,271       1,665,360      
Uni-Charm Corp.
    12,400       492,396      
 
 
            $ 12,277,344      
 
 
 
 
Industrial Conglomerates — 1.9%
 
3M Co.
    53,517     $ 4,618,517      
General Electric Co.
    372,123       6,806,130      
Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc.
    38,128       176,710      
Siemens AG
    126,201       15,632,993      
Textron, Inc.
    29,211       690,548      
 
 
            $ 27,924,898      
 
 
 

 
See notes to financial statements

7


 

 
Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
 
PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS CONT’D
 
                     
Security   Shares     Value      
 
 
 
Insurance — 3.6%
 
ACE, Ltd.
    25,406     $ 1,581,523      
Aflac, Inc.
    17,276       974,885      
Allianz SE
    66,135       7,857,817      
American International Group, Inc.(1)
    10,335       595,503      
AON Corp.
    3,503       161,173      
AXA SA
    297,994       4,960,205      
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., Class B(1)
    29,420       2,356,836      
Chubb Corp.
    4,667       278,340      
Cincinnati Financial Corp.
    95,829       3,036,821      
CNP Assurances
    56,816       1,025,468      
Delta Lloyd NV
    38,000       766,342      
Genworth Financial, Inc., Class A(1)
    46,638       612,823      
HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc.
    72,068       2,085,648      
Mapfre SA
    247,314       689,421      
Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc.
    94,701       2,589,125      
MetLife, Inc.
    112,391       4,994,656      
MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc.
    24,200       604,097      
Principal Financial Group, Inc.
    36,247       1,180,202      
Prudential Financial, Inc.
    37,177       2,182,662      
Prudential PLC
    349,752       3,653,945      
Resolution, Ltd.
    95,702       350,139      
RSA Insurance Group PLC
    678,764       1,327,000      
SCOR SE
    63,370       1,610,437      
Sony Financial Holdings, Inc.
    136       547,718      
Standard Life PLC
    479,801       1,620,468      
Swiss Life Holding, Ltd.(1)
    5,941       856,885      
Swiss Reinsurance Co., Ltd.
    33,066       1,773,885      
T&D Holdings, Inc.
    27,300       688,666      
Tryg A/S
    15,498       714,702      
 
 
            $ 51,677,392      
 
 
 
 
Internet & Catalog Retail — 1.2%
 
Amazon.com, Inc.(1)
    64,528     $ 11,615,040      
Liberty Media Corp. - Interactive, Class A(1)
    33,681       531,149      
Priceline.com, Inc.(1)
    11,738       4,689,918      
 
 
            $ 16,836,107      
 
 
 
 
Internet Software & Services — 2.9%
 
Baidu, Inc. ADR(1)
    53,449     $ 5,159,432      
eBay, Inc.(1)
    206,059       5,734,622      
Google, Inc., Class A(1)
    36,038       21,405,491      
Monster Worldwide, Inc.(1)
    36,048       851,814      
United Internet AG
    55,455       902,296      
VeriSign, Inc.
    108,496       3,544,565      
Yahoo! Inc.(1)
    193,189       3,212,733      
 
 
            $ 40,810,953      
 
 
 
 
IT Services — 2.0%
 
CapGemini SA
    56,171     $ 2,625,955      
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., Class A(1)
    77,532       5,682,320      
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.
    51,873       1,420,801      
Infosys Technologies, Ltd. ADR
    60,400       4,595,232      
International Business Machines Corp.
    66,339       9,735,912      
MasterCard, Inc., Class A
    5,904       1,323,145      
Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
    12,000       266,583      
NTT Data Corp.
    581       2,003,635      
Obic Co., Ltd.
    1,080       221,798      
Otsuka Corp.
    2,600       176,910      
Western Union Co.
    55,901       1,038,082      
 
 
            $ 29,090,373      
 
 
 
 
Leisure Equipment & Products — 0.2%
 
Hasbro, Inc.
    21,651     $ 1,021,494      
Nikon Corp.
    63,000       1,271,764      
Sankyo Co., Ltd.
    4,300       242,277      
 
 
            $ 2,535,535      
 
 
 
 
Life Sciences Tools & Services — 0.2%
 
Illumina, Inc.(1)
    30,602     $ 1,938,331      
PerkinElmer, Inc.
    27,425       708,113      
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.(1)
    17,359       960,994      
 
 
            $ 3,607,438      
 
 
 
 
Machinery — 2.3%
 
AGCO Corp.(1)
    23,446     $ 1,187,774      
Caterpillar, Inc.
    35,948       3,366,890      
Dover Corp.
    15,298       894,168      
Eaton Corp.
    22,736       2,307,931      
Ebara Corp.(1)
    104,000       508,877      
Fanuc, Ltd.
    52,827       8,074,942      
Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    66,900       1,596,732      
IHI Corp.
    213,000       472,896      
Japan Steel Works, Ltd.
    78,000       812,380      
Joy Global, Inc.
    19,362       1,679,653      
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    107,000       358,604      
Komatsu, Ltd.
    67,800       2,040,566      
Kurita Water Industries, Ltd.
    7,400       232,301      

 
See notes to financial statements

8


 

 
Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
 
PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS CONT’D
 
                     
Security   Shares     Value      
 
 
Machinery (continued)
 
                     
Makita Corp.
    6,700     $ 272,636      
MAN AG
    12,372       1,473,568      
Meidensha Corp.
    97,000       456,725      
Minebea Co., Ltd.
    67,127       421,100      
NTN Corp.
    132,000       696,616      
Pall Corp.
    30,660       1,520,123      
Parker Hannifin Corp.
    29,259       2,525,052      
SMC Corp.
    2,900       494,874      
Snap-On, Inc.
    15,120       855,490      
Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    119,000       761,162      
Titan International, Inc.
    23,159       452,527      
 
 
            $ 33,463,587      
 
 
 
 
Marine — 0.1%
 
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd.
    174,000     $ 757,550      
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd.
    83,000       562,419      
 
 
            $ 1,319,969      
 
 
 
 
Media — 2.4%
 
British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC
    447,757     $ 5,137,998      
Comcast Corp., Class A
    409,550       8,997,814      
Comcast Corp., Special Class A
    19,251       400,613      
DIRECTV, Class A(1)
    116,574       4,654,800      
Focus Media Holding, Ltd. ADR(1)
    10,518       230,660      
JC Decaux SA(1)
    44,715       1,376,793      
McGraw-Hill Cos., Inc. (The)
    27,142       988,240      
Omnicom Group, Inc.
    54,629       2,502,008      
Virgin Media, Inc.
    100,424       2,735,550      
Walt Disney Co. (The)
    174,880       6,559,749      
Wolters Kluwer NV
    45,032       987,582      
 
 
            $ 34,571,807      
 
 
 
 
Metals & Mining — 3.3%
 
AK Steel Holding Corp.
    20,960     $ 343,115      
Alcoa, Inc.
    118,506       1,823,807      
Anglo American PLC
    100,152       5,239,238      
ArcelorMittal
    200,276       7,621,790      
BHP Billiton PLC
    189,390       7,619,522      
Boliden AB
    112,900       2,300,212      
Cliffs Natural Resources, Inc.
    9,184       716,444      
Dowa Holdings Co., Ltd.
    105,000       685,976      
JFE Holdings, Inc.
    8,900       308,584      
Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    216,000       545,774      
Mitsubishi Materials Corp.(1)
    80,000       254,223      
Newmont Mining Corp.
    30,985       1,903,409      
Pacific Metals Co., Ltd.
    62,000       524,623      
Rio Tinto PLC
    128,971       9,193,284      
Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    112,000       274,569      
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.
    66,000       1,149,597      
United States Steel Corp.
    27,078       1,581,897      
Xstrata PLC
    195,335       4,628,713      
 
 
            $ 46,714,777      
 
 
 
 
Multi-Utilities — 1.6%
 
Centrica PLC
    498,444     $ 2,582,600      
CMS Energy Corp.
    175,140       3,257,604      
Consolidated Edison, Inc.
    38,721       1,919,400      
Dominion Resources, Inc.
    42,535       1,817,095      
GDF Suez
    222,427       7,988,448      
NiSource, Inc.
    42,420       747,440      
Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc.
    116,940       3,719,862      
RWE AG, PFC Shares
    10,079       646,454      
 
 
            $ 22,678,903      
 
 
 
 
Multiline Retail — 0.9%
 
H2O Retailing Corp.
    29,000     $ 211,104      
Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings, Ltd.
    71,332       826,734      
Kohl’s Corp.(1)
    44,325       2,408,620      
Marks & Spencer Group PLC
    432,844       2,496,004      
Nordstrom, Inc.
    19,173       812,552      
PPR SA
    7,380       1,174,975      
Sears Holdings Corp.(1)
    19,043       1,404,421      
Target Corp.
    70,056       4,212,467      
 
 
            $ 13,546,877      
 
 
 
 
Office Electronics — 0.6%
 
Brother Industries, Ltd.
    22,000     $ 324,696      
Canon, Inc.
    78,200       4,016,764      
Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    70,500       728,642      
Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    59,000       860,279      
Xerox Corp.
    208,743       2,404,719      
 
 
            $ 8,335,100      
 
 
 
 
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels — 7.1%
 
Anadarko Petroleum Corp.
    39,182     $ 2,984,101      
BP PLC
    1,728,070       12,737,566      
Chesapeake Energy Corp.
    11,230       290,969      
Chevron Corp.
    100,417       9,163,051      
ConocoPhillips
    104,333       7,105,077      

 
See notes to financial statements

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Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
 
PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS CONT’D
 
                     
Security   Shares     Value      
 
 
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels (continued)
 
                     
Devon Energy Corp.
    8,417     $ 660,819      
El Paso Corp.
    56,715       780,398      
ENI SpA
    332,108       7,278,898      
Exxon Mobil Corp.
    235,131       17,192,779      
Hess Corp.
    20,723       1,586,138      
Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    3,100       328,495      
Japan Petroleum Exploration Co.
    3,900       147,897      
Petrohawk Energy Corp.(1)
    38,373       700,307      
Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Class A
    359,111       11,990,207      
Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Class B
    292,028       9,670,428      
Southwestern Energy Co.(1)
    24,167       904,571      
Suncor Energy, Inc.
    23,244       890,013      
Total SA
    268,726       14,312,922      
Williams Cos., Inc.
    118,494       2,929,172      
 
 
            $ 101,653,808      
 
 
 
 
Paper & Forest Products — 0.1%
 
International Paper Co.
    16,317     $ 444,475      
OJI Paper Co., Ltd.
    76,000       366,777      
 
 
            $ 811,252      
 
 
 
 
Personal Products — 0.2%
 
Kao Corp.
    73,654     $ 1,979,457      
USANA Health Sciences, Inc.(1)
    9,533       414,209      
 
 
            $ 2,393,666      
 
 
 
 
Pharmaceuticals — 6.9%
 
Abbott Laboratories
    115,361     $ 5,526,946      
Allergan, Inc.
    27,084       1,859,858      
Astellas Pharma, Inc.
    58,400       2,219,516      
AstraZeneca PLC
    135,442       6,172,721      
Bayer AG
    25,635       1,900,241      
Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    52,900       968,625      
Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.
    62,300       1,360,692      
Eisai Co., Ltd.
    59,846       2,162,073      
Eli Lilly & Co.
    34,545       1,210,457      
GlaxoSmithKline PLC
    541,207       10,495,582      
Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Co., Inc.
    4,800       201,741      
Johnson & Johnson
    119,421       7,386,189      
Medicines Co.(1)
    28,661       404,980      
Merck & Co., Inc.
    177,326       6,390,829      
Merck KGaA
    9,700       776,579      
Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp.
    10,000       168,574      
Novartis AG
    249,781       14,703,497      
Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    5,000       233,159      
Pfizer, Inc.
    502,128       8,792,261      
Roche Holding AG
    75,396       11,052,510      
Sanofi-Aventis
    130,640       8,375,371      
Shionogi & Co., Ltd.
    56,000       1,103,587      
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    39,731       1,951,817      
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.(1)
    48,108       2,484,778      
 
 
            $ 97,902,583      
 
 
 
 
Professional Services — 0.4%
 
Equifax, Inc.
    15,217     $ 541,725      
Manpower, Inc.
    24,829       1,558,268      
Randstad Holding NV(1)
    24,548       1,297,329      
Robert Half International, Inc.
    59,863       1,831,808      
 
 
            $ 5,229,130      
 
 
 
 
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) — 0.7%
 
AvalonBay Communities, Inc.
    19,158     $ 2,156,233      
British Land Co. PLC
    195,831       1,607,482      
Capital Shopping Centres Group PLC
    189,600       1,236,685      
Japan Real Estate Investment Corp.
    37       383,305      
Japan Retail Fund Investment Corp.
    200       382,469      
Nippon Building Fund, Inc.
    40       409,933      
Simon Property Group, Inc.
    32,545       3,237,902      
 
 
            $ 9,414,009      
 
 
 
 
Real Estate Management & Development — 0.2%
 
Capital & Counties Properties PLC
    189,600     $ 445,477      
Daito Trust Construction Co., Ltd.
    6,300       430,558      
Heiwa Real Estate Co., Ltd.
    324,000       1,016,958      
Nomura Real Estate Holdings, Inc.
    27,400       497,179      
NTT Urban Development Corp.
    443       434,883      
 
 
            $ 2,825,055      
 
 
 
 
Road & Rail — 0.6%
 
Central Japan Railway Co.
    55     $ 459,769      
CSX Corp.
    38,338       2,477,018      
East Japan Railway Co.
    12,600       817,604      
Kansas City Southern(1)
    33,485       1,602,592      
Keio Corp.
    139,000       946,759      
Kintetsu Corp.
    105,000       328,093      
Ryder System, Inc.
    14,154       745,067      
Tobu Railway Co., Ltd.
    135,000       757,118      
 
 
            $ 8,134,020      
 
 
 

 
See notes to financial statements

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Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
 
PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS CONT’D
 
                     
Security   Shares     Value      
 
 
 
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment — 3.0%
 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.(1)
    43,780     $ 358,120      
Advantest Corp.
    111,000       2,495,634      
Applied Materials, Inc.
    313,048       4,398,324      
Atheros Communications, Inc.(1)
    60,993       2,190,869      
Broadcom Corp., Class A
    133,905       5,831,563      
Cirrus Logic, Inc.(1)
    62,702       1,001,978      
Cree, Inc.(1)
    28,924       1,905,802      
Cypress Semiconductor Corp.(1)
    217,447       4,040,165      
Infineon Technologies AG(1)
    113,522       1,058,165      
Intel Corp.
    654,452       13,763,126      
MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.(1)
    57,209       644,173      
ON Semiconductor Corp.(1)
    53,708       530,635      
Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.
    17,200       191,895      
Sumco Corp.(1)
    14,600       207,896      
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. ADR
    91,231       1,144,037      
Tessera Technologies, Inc.(1)
    21,221       470,045      
Tokyo Electron, Ltd.
    53,500       3,368,423      
 
 
            $ 43,600,850      
 
 
 
 
Software — 4.2%
 
BMC Software, Inc.(1)
    31,383     $ 1,479,395      
Citrix Systems, Inc.(1)
    46,346       3,170,530      
Compuware Corp.(1)
    52,384       611,321      
Concur Technologies, Inc.(1)
    56,008       2,908,495      
Dassault Systemes SA
    23,266       1,756,363      
Konami Corp.
    62,100       1,313,907      
Microsoft Corp.
    948,983       26,495,605      
Oracle Corp.
    529,690       16,579,297      
Symantec Corp.(1)
    199,867       3,345,774      
TiVo, Inc.(1)
    45,460       392,320      
Trend Micro, Inc.
    57,397       1,885,599      
 
 
            $ 59,938,606      
 
 
 
 
Specialty Retail — 1.9%
 
Abercrombie & Fitch Co., Class A
    10,682     $ 615,604      
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.
    42,783       625,915      
Best Buy Co., Inc.
    47,984       1,645,371      
Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.
    51,300       8,137,279      
Gap, Inc. (The)
    73,351       1,623,991      
Home Depot, Inc.
    62,734       2,199,454      
Industria de Diseno Textil SA
    34,787       2,603,913      
Limited Brands, Inc.
    33,514       1,029,885      
Office Depot, Inc.(1)
    190,264       1,027,426      
Shimamura Co., Ltd.
    2,400       222,143      
Staples, Inc.
    222,003       5,055,008      
Tiffany & Co.
    26,337       1,640,005      
USS Co., Ltd.
    2,720       221,965      
Yamada Denki Co., Ltd.
    4,360       296,616      
 
 
            $ 26,944,575      
 
 
 
 
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods — 0.7%
 
Adidas AG
    18,804     $ 1,223,175      
Asics Corp.
    20,000       255,991      
Christian Dior SA
    10,660       1,524,732      
Coach, Inc.
    16,626       919,584      
Hanesbrands, Inc.(1)
    30,207       767,258      
NIKE, Inc., Class B
    30,110       2,571,996      
Nisshinbo Holdings, Inc.
    82,000       895,054      
Onward Holdings Co., Ltd.
    30,000       259,185      
Swatch Group AG, Class B
    3,924       1,749,595      
 
 
            $ 10,166,570      
 
 
 
 
Tobacco — 1.8%
 
Altria Group, Inc.
    71,118     $ 1,750,925      
British American Tobacco PLC
    275,025       10,579,160      
Imperial Tobacco Group PLC
    177,291       5,449,885      
Japan Tobacco, Inc.
    409       1,510,262      
Philip Morris International, Inc.
    113,533       6,645,086      
 
 
            $ 25,935,318      
 
 
 
 
Trading Companies & Distributors — 0.4%
 
Marubeni Corp.
    147,000     $ 1,029,116      
Mitsubishi Corp.
    77,500       2,088,758      
Sumitomo Corp.
    96,700       1,361,271      
Wolseley PLC(1)
    51,754       1,656,764      
 
 
            $ 6,135,909      
 
 
 
 
Transportation Infrastructure — 0.1%
 
ADP
    13,565     $ 1,072,101      
Kamigumi Co., Ltd.
    46,000       384,991      
 
 
            $ 1,457,092      
 
 
 
 
Wireless Telecommunication Services — 2.0%
 
American Tower Corp., Class A(1)
    19,546     $ 1,009,356      
KDDI Corp.
    537       3,096,737      
MetroPCS Communications, Inc.(1)
    45,272       571,785      
Millicom International Cellular SA
    18,027       1,723,381      
Rogers Communications, Inc., Class B
    46,378       1,606,070      

 
See notes to financial statements

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Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
 
PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS CONT’D
 
                     
Security   Shares     Value      
 
 
Wireless Telecommunication Services (continued)
 
                     
Softbank Corp.
    159,298     $ 5,492,664      
Sprint Nextel Corp.(1)
    97,523       412,522      
Vodafone Group PLC
    5,349,088       14,042,178      
 
 
            $ 27,954,693      
 
 
     
Total Common Stocks
   
(identified cost $1,236,363,663)
  $ 1,435,312,325      
 
 
                     
                     
Investment Funds — 0.1%
 
Security   Shares     Value      
 
 
 
Capital Markets — 0.1%
 
Alliance Trust PLC
    154,637     $ 900,556      
 
 
     
Total Investment Funds
   
(identified cost $644,408)
  $ 900,556      
 
 
     
Total Investments — 100.6%
   
(identified cost $1,237,008,071)
  $ 1,436,212,881      
 
 
 
 
                                     
Call Options Written — (1.1)%
 
    Number of
    Strike
    Expiration
           
Description   Contracts     Price     Date     Value      
 
 
                                                 
Dow Jones Euro Stoxx 50 Index     68,600     EUR 2,900       1/21/11     $ (1,530,892 )    
FTSE 100 Index     17,950     GBP 5,925       1/21/11       (2,700,633 )    
NASDAQ 100 Index     675     $ 2,225       1/22/11       (2,089,125 )    
NASDAQ 100 Index     750     $ 2,250       1/22/11       (1,455,000 )    
Nikkei 225 Index     1,250,000     JPY 10,250       1/14/11       (1,655,068 )    
S&P 500 Index     1,320     $ 1,245       1/22/11       (3,412,200 )    
S&P 500 Index     1,035     $ 1,260       1/22/11       (1,676,700 )    
S&P 500 Index     1,330     $ 1,270       1/22/11       (1,522,850 )    
SMI Index     9,250     CHF 6,650       1/21/11       (209,733 )    
 
 
             
Total Call Options Written
           
(premiums received $22,312,888)
  $ (16,252,201 )    
 
 
             
Other Assets, Less Liabilities — 0.5%
  $ 7,879,901      
 
 
             
Net Assets — 100.0%
  $ 1,427,840,581      
 
 
 
The percentage shown for each investment category in the Portfolio of Investments is based on net assets.
 
ADR - American Depositary Receipt
 
PFC Shares - Preference Shares
 
CHF - Swiss Franc
 
EUR - Euro
 
GBP - British Pound Sterling
 
JPY - Japanese Yen
 
(1) Non-income producing security.
 
 
 
                     
Country Concentration of Portfolio
 
    Percentage
           
Country   of Net Assets     Value      
 
 
United States
    53.4 %   $ 761,698,092      
United Kingdom
    11.9       169,952,843      
Japan
    10.8       154,115,048      
France
    5.9       84,729,767      
Germany
    5.4       77,185,319      
Switzerland
    5.1       72,206,070      
Spain
    2.4       33,984,665      
Italy
    1.6       23,134,152      
Netherlands
    1.1       16,185,349      
Luxembourg
    0.7       9,345,171      
Canada
    0.6       8,215,087      
Finland
    0.4       6,340,660      
China
    0.4       5,390,092      
India
    0.3       4,595,232      
Other Countries, less than 0.3% each
    0.6       9,135,334      
 
 
Total Investments
    100.6 %   $ 1,436,212,881      
 
 

 
See notes to financial statements

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Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
 
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
 
             
As of December 31, 2010          
 
Assets
 
Investments, at value (identified cost, $1,237,008,071)
  $ 1,436,212,881      
Cash
    1,485,764      
Restricted cash*
    4,090,000      
Foreign currency, at value (identified cost, $1,127)
    1,151      
Dividends receivable
    1,475,147      
Receivable for investments sold
    57,226,616      
Tax reclaims receivable
    1,153,976      
 
 
Total assets
  $ 1,501,645,535      
 
 
             
             
 
Liabilities
 
Written options outstanding, at value (premiums received, $22,312,888)
  $ 16,252,201      
Payable for investments purchased
    55,841,467      
Payable to affiliates:
           
Investment adviser fee
    1,216,291      
Trustees’ fees
    11,193      
Accrued expenses
    483,802      
 
 
Total liabilities
  $ 73,804,954      
 
 
Net Assets
  $ 1,427,840,581      
 
 
             
             
 
Sources of Net Assets
 
Common shares, $0.01 par value, unlimited number of shares authorized, 107,229,535 shares issued and outstanding
  $ 1,072,295      
Additional paid-in capital
    1,225,104,874      
Accumulated net realized loss
    (2,345,903 )    
Accumulated distributions in excess of net investment income
    (1,395,195 )    
Net unrealized appreciation
    205,404,510      
 
 
Net Assets
  $ 1,427,840,581      
 
 
             
             
 
Net Asset Value
 
($1,427,840,581 ¸ 107,229,535 common shares issued and outstanding)
  $ 13.32      
 
 
 
Represents restricted cash on deposit at the custodian as collateral for written options.
 
 
Statement of Operations
 
             
For the Year Ended
         
December 31, 2010          
 
Investment Income
 
Dividends (net of foreign taxes, $1,908,188)
  $ 32,327,975      
 
 
Total investment income
  $ 32,327,975      
 
 
             
             
 
Expenses
 
Investment adviser fee
  $ 13,912,999      
Trustees’ fees and expenses
    45,760      
Custodian fee
    671,911      
Transfer and dividend disbursing agent fees
    20,663      
Legal and accounting services
    57,911      
Printing and postage
    351,868      
Miscellaneous
    149,357      
 
 
Total expenses
  $ 15,210,469      
 
 
Deduct —
           
Reduction of custodian fee
  $ 4,773      
 
 
Total expense reductions
  $ 4,773      
 
 
             
Net expenses
  $ 15,205,696      
 
 
             
Net investment income
  $ 17,122,279      
 
 
             
             
 
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)
 
Net realized gain (loss) —
           
Investment transactions
  $ 57,551,405      
Written options
    (59,506,029 )    
Foreign currency transactions
    (73,770 )    
 
 
Net realized loss
  $ (2,028,394 )    
 
 
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) —
           
Investments
  $ 66,471,415      
Written options
    19,986,930      
Foreign currency
    43,248      
 
 
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
  $ 86,501,593      
 
 
             
Net realized and unrealized gain
  $ 84,473,199      
 
 
             
Net increase in net assets from operations
  $ 101,595,478      
 
 

 
See notes to financial statements

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Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
 
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS CONT’D
 
 
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
 
                     
Increase (Decrease)
  Year Ended
    Year Ended
     
in Net Assets   December 31, 2010     December 31, 2009      
 
From operations —
                   
Net investment income
  $ 17,122,279     $ 21,206,060      
Net realized gain (loss) from investment transactions, written options and foreign currency transactions
    (2,028,394 )     48,042,016      
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) from investments, written options and foreign currency
    86,501,593       269,708,855      
 
 
Net increase in net assets from operations
  $ 101,595,478     $ 338,956,931      
 
 
Distributions to shareholders —
                   
From net investment income
  $ (17,676,961 )   $ (21,733,320 )    
From net realized gain
    (2,063,115 )          
Tax return of capital
    (137,807,191 )     (169,738,302 )    
 
 
Total distributions
  $ (157,547,267 )   $ (191,471,622 )    
 
 
Capital share transactions —
                   
Reinvestment of distributions
  $ 5,549,924     $ 6,769,711      
 
 
Net increase in net assets from capital share transactions
  $ 5,549,924     $ 6,769,711      
 
 
                     
Net increase (decrease) in net assets
  $ (50,401,865 )   $ 154,255,020      
 
 
                     
                     
 
Net Assets
 
At beginning of year
  $ 1,478,242,446     $ 1,323,987,426      
 
 
At end of year
  $ 1,427,840,581     $ 1,478,242,446      
 
 
                     
                     
 
Accumulated distributions
in excess of net
investment income
included in net assets
 
At end of year
  $ (1,395,195 )   $ (679,181 )    
 
 

 
See notes to financial statements

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Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
 
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS CONT’D
 
 
Financial Highlights
 
                                             
    Year Ended December 31,
   
    2010     2009     2008     2007     2006      
 
Net asset value — Beginning of year
  $ 13.840     $ 12.450     $ 19.670     $ 19.560     $ 18.610      
 
 
                                             
                                             
 
Income (Loss) From Operations
 
Net investment income(1)
  $ 0.160     $ 0.199     $ 0.287     $ 0.213     $ 0.242      
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)
    0.792       2.991       (5.707 )     1.697       2.510      
 
 
Total income (loss) from operations
  $ 0.952     $ 3.190     $ (5.420 )   $ 1.910     $ 2.752      
 
 
                                             
                                             
 
Less Distributions
 
From net investment income
  $ (0.167 )   $ (0.204 )   $ (0.285 )   $ (0.039 )   $ (0.241 )    
From net realized gain
    (0.019 )                 (0.098 )     (0.126 )    
Tax return of capital
    (1.286 )     (1.596 )     (1.515 )     (1.663 )     (1.433 )    
 
 
Total distributions
  $ (1.472 )   $ (1.800 )   $ (1.800 )   $ (1.800 )   $ (1.800 )    
 
 
                                             
Offering costs charged to paid-in capital(1)
  $     $     $     $     $ (0.002 )    
 
 
                                             
Net asset value — End of year
  $ 13.320     $ 13.840     $ 12.450     $ 19.670     $ 19.560      
 
 
                                             
Market value — End of year
  $ 12.250     $ 13.890     $ 10.120     $ 17.360     $ 20.320      
 
 
                                             
Total Investment Return on Net Asset Value(2)
    8.24 %     28.83 %     (27.36 )%     10.55 %     15.47 %    
 
 
                                             
Total Investment Return on Market Value(2)
    (0.81 )%     59.07 %     (33.09 )%     (6.08 )%     29.79 %    
 
 
                                             
                                             
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data
 
Net assets, end of year (000’s omitted)
  $ 1,427,841     $ 1,478,242     $ 1,323,987     $ 2,091,164     $ 2,075,159      
Ratios (as a percentage of average daily net assets):
                                           
Expenses(3)
    1.09 %     1.09 %     1.08 %     1.08 %     1.07 %    
Net investment income
    1.23 %     1.57 %     1.76 %     1.07 %     1.26 %    
Portfolio Turnover
    12 %     31 %     33 %     13 %     14 %    
 
 
 
(1) Computed using average shares outstanding.
 
(2) Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value or market value with all distributions reinvested.
 
(3) Excludes the effect of custody fee credits, if any, of less than 0.005%.

 
See notes to financial statements

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Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
 
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
1   Significant Accounting Policies
 
Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund (the Fund) is a Massachusetts business trust registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund’s primary investment objective is to provide current income and gains, with a secondary objective of capital appreciation.
 
The following is a summary of significant accounting policies of the Fund. The policies are in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
 
A  Investment Valuation — Equity securities (including common shares of closed-end investment companies) listed on a U.S. securities exchange generally are valued at the last sale or closing price on the day of valuation or, if no sales took place on such date, at the mean between the closing bid and asked prices therefore on the exchange where such securities are principally traded. Equity securities listed on the NASDAQ Global or Global Select Market generally are valued at the NASDAQ official closing price. Unlisted or listed securities for which closing sales prices or closing quotations are not available are valued at the mean between the latest available bid and asked prices or, in the case of preferred equity securities that are not listed or traded in the over-the-counter market, by a third party pricing service that will use various techniques that consider factors including, but not limited to, prices or yields of securities with similar characteristics, benchmark yields, broker/dealer quotes, quotes of underlying common stock, issuer spreads, as well as industry and economic events. Exchange-traded options are valued at the mean between the bid and asked prices at valuation time as reported by the Options Price Reporting Authority for U.S. listed options or by the relevant exchange or board of trade for non-U.S. listed options. Over-the-counter options are valued by a third party pricing service using techniques that consider factors including the value of the underlying instrument, the volatility of the underlying instrument and the period of time until option expiration. Foreign securities and currencies are valued in U.S. dollars, based on foreign currency exchange rate quotations supplied by a third party pricing service. The pricing service uses a proprietary model to determine the exchange rate. Inputs to the model include reported trades and implied bid/ask spreads. The daily valuation of exchange-traded foreign securities generally is determined as of the close of trading on the principal exchange on which such securities trade. Events occurring after the close of trading on foreign exchanges may result in adjustments to the valuation of foreign securities to more accurately reflect their fair value as of the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange. When valuing foreign equity securities that meet certain criteria, the Trustees have approved the use
 
of a fair value service that values such securities to reflect market trading that occurs after the close of the applicable foreign markets of comparable securities or other instruments that have a strong correlation to the fair-valued securities. Investments for which valuations or market quotations are not readily available or are deemed unreliable are valued at fair value using methods determined in good faith by or at the direction of the Trustees of the Fund in a manner that most fairly reflects the security’s value, or the amount that the Fund might reasonably expect to receive for the security upon its current sale in the ordinary course. Each such determination is based on a consideration of all relevant factors, which are likely to vary from one pricing context to another. These factors may include, but are not limited to, the type of security, the existence of any contractual restrictions on the security’s disposition, the price and extent of public trading in similar securities of the issuer or of comparable companies or entities, quotations or relevant information obtained from broker-dealers or other market participants, information obtained from the issuer, analysts, and/or the appropriate stock exchange (for exchange-traded securities), an analysis of the company’s or entity’s financial condition, and an evaluation of the forces that influence the issuer and the market(s) in which the security is purchased and sold.
 
B  Investment Transactions — Investment transactions for financial statement purposes are accounted for on a trade date basis. Realized gains and losses on investments sold are determined on the basis of identified cost.
 
C  Income — Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date for dividends received in cash and/or securities. However, if the ex-dividend date has passed, certain dividends from foreign securities are recorded as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Withholding taxes on foreign dividends and capital gains have been provided for in accordance with the Fund’s understanding of the applicable countries’ tax rules and rates.
 
D  Federal Taxes — The Fund’s policy is to comply with the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies and to distribute to shareholders each year substantially all of its net investment income, and all or substantially all of its net realized capital gains. Accordingly, no provision for federal income or excise tax is necessary.
 
During the year ended December 31, 2010, a capital loss carryforward of $2,465,392 was utilized to offset net realized gains by the Fund.

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Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
 
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS CONT’D
 
 
Additionally, at December 31, 2010, the Fund had a net capital loss of $98,821 attributable to foreign currency transactions incurred after October 31, 2010. This net capital loss is treated as arising on the first day of the Fund’s taxable year ending December 31, 2011.
 
As of December 31, 2010, the Fund had no uncertain tax positions that would require financial statement recognition, de-recognition, or disclosure. Each of the Fund’s federal tax returns filed in the 3-year period ended December 31, 2010 remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service.
 
E  Expense Reduction — State Street Bank and Trust Company (SSBT) serves as custodian of the Fund. Pursuant to the custodian agreement, SSBT receives a fee reduced by credits, which are determined based on the average daily cash balance the Fund maintains with SSBT. All credit balances, if any, used to reduce the Fund’s custodian fees are reported as a reduction of expenses in the Statement of Operations.
 
F  Foreign Currency Translation — Investment valuations, other assets, and liabilities initially expressed in foreign currencies are translated each business day into U.S. dollars based upon current exchange rates. Purchases and sales of foreign investment securities and income and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars based upon currency exchange rates in effect on the respective dates of such transactions. Recognized gains or losses on investment transactions attributable to changes in foreign currency exchange rates are recorded for financial statement purposes as net realized gains and losses on investments. That portion of unrealized gains and losses on investments that results from fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates is not separately disclosed.
 
G  Use of Estimates — The preparation of the financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and expense during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
 
H  Indemnifications — Under the Fund’s organizational documents, its officers and Trustees may be indemnified against certain liabilities and expenses arising out of the performance of their duties to the Fund. Under Massachusetts law, if certain conditions prevail, shareholders of a Massachusetts business trust (such as the Fund) could be deemed to have personal liability for the obligations of the Fund. However, the Fund’s Declaration
 
of Trust contains an express disclaimer of liability on the part of Fund shareholders and the By-laws provide that the Fund shall assume the defense on behalf of any Fund shareholders. Moreover, the By-laws also provide for indemnification out of Fund property of any shareholder held personally liable solely by reason of being or having been a shareholder for all loss or expense arising from such liability. Additionally, in the normal course of business, the Fund enters into agreements with service providers that may contain indemnification clauses. The Fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Fund that have not yet occurred.
 
I  Written Options — Upon the writing of a call or a put option, the premium received by the Fund is included in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as a liability. The amount of the liability is subsequently marked-to-market to reflect the current market value of the option written, in accordance with the Fund’s policies on investment valuations discussed above. Premiums received from writing options which expire are treated as realized gains. Premiums received from writing options which are exercised or are closed are added to or offset against the proceeds or amount paid on the transaction to determine the realized gain or loss. As the writer of an index put option, the Fund is responsible, during the option’s life, for any decreases in the value of the index below the strike price of the put option. When an index put option is exercised, the Fund will be required to deliver an amount of cash determined by the excess of the strike price of the option over the value of the index at contract termination. As the writer of an index call option, the Fund is responsible, during the option’s life, for any increases in the value of the index above the strike price of the call option. When an index call option is exercised, the Fund will be required to deliver an amount of cash determined by the excess of the value of the index at contract termination over the strike price of the option. If a put option on a security is exercised, the premium reduces the cost basis of the securities purchased by the Fund. The Fund, as a writer of an option, may have no control over whether the underlying securities or other assets may be sold (call) or purchased (put) and, as a result, bears the market risk of an unfavorable change in the price of the securities or other assets underlying the written option. The Fund may also bear the risk of not being able to enter into a closing transaction if a liquid secondary market does not exist.
 
2   Distributions to Shareholders
 
Subject to its Managed Distribution Plan, the Fund intends to make quarterly distributions from its cash available for distribution, which consists of the Fund’s dividends and interest income after payment of Fund expenses, net option premiums and net realized and unrealized gains on stock investments. The Fund intends to distribute all or

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Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
 
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS CONT’D
 
 
substantially all of its net realized capital gains (reduced by available capital loss carryforwards from prior years, if any). Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. The Fund distinguishes between distributions on a tax basis and a financial reporting basis. Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America require that only distributions in excess of tax basis earnings and profits be reported in the financial statements as a return of capital. Permanent differences between book and tax accounting relating to distributions are reclassified to paid-in capital. For tax purposes, distributions from short-term capital gains are considered to be from ordinary income. Distributions in any year may include a substantial return of capital component.
 
The tax character of distributions declared for the years ended December 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009 was as follows:
 
                     
    Year Ended December 31,
    2010     2009      
 
 
Distributions declared from:
                   
Ordinary income
  $ 17,676,961     $ 21,733,320      
Long-term capital gains
  $ 2,063,115     $      
Tax return of capital
  $ 137,807,191     $ 169,738,302      
 
During the year ended December 31, 2010, accumulated net realized loss was decreased by $52,865, accumulated distributions in excess of net investment income was increased by $161,332 and paid-in capital was increased by $108,467 due to differences between book and tax accounting, primarily for foreign currency gain (loss), investments in passive foreign investment companies (PFICs), distributions from real estate investment trusts and return of capital distributions from securities. These reclassifications had no effect on the net assets or net asset value per share of the Fund.
 
As of December 31, 2010, the components of distributable earnings (accumulated losses) and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on a tax basis were as follows:
 
             
Net unrealized appreciation
  $ 201,762,233      
Post October losses
  $ (98,821 )    
 
The differences between components of distributable earnings (accumulated losses) on a tax basis and the amounts reflected in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities are primarily due to wash sales, written options contracts, foreign currency transactions and investments in PFICs.
 
3   Investment Adviser Fee and Other Transactions with Affiliates
 
The investment adviser fee is earned by Eaton Vance Management (EVM) as compensation for management and investment advisory services rendered to the Fund.
 
The fee is computed at an annual rate of 1.00% of the Fund’s average daily gross assets and is payable monthly. Gross assets as referred to herein represent net assets plus obligations attributable to investment leverage, if any. For the year ended December 31, 2010, the investment adviser fee amounted to $13,912,999. Pursuant to a sub-advisory agreement, EVM has delegated a portion of the investment management to Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC (Parametric), an affiliate of EVM. EVM pays Parametric a portion of its advisory fee for sub-advisory services provided to the Fund. EVM also serves as administrator of the Fund, but receives no compensation.
 
Except for Trustees of the Fund who are not members of EVM’s organization, officers and Trustees receive remuneration for their services to the Fund out of the investment adviser fee. Trustees of the Fund who are not affiliated with EVM may elect to defer receipt of all or a percentage of their annual fees in accordance with the terms of the Trustees Deferred Compensation Plan. For the year ended December 31, 2010, no significant amounts have been deferred. Certain officers and Trustees of the Fund are officers of EVM.
 
4   Purchases and Sales of Investments
 
Purchases and sales of investments, other than short-term obligations, aggregated $172,155,168 and $364,471,252, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2010.
 
5   Common Shares of Beneficial Interest
 
Common shares issued pursuant to the Fund’s dividend reinvestment plan for the years ended December 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009 were 424,054 and 497,414, respectively.
 
6   Federal Income Tax Basis of Investments
 
The cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments of the Fund at December 31, 2010, as determined on a federal income tax basis, were as follows:
 
             
Aggregate cost
  $ 1,238,888,608      
 
 
Gross unrealized appreciation
  $ 276,094,287      
Gross unrealized depreciation
    (78,770,014 )    
 
 
Net unrealized appreciation
  $ 197,324,273      
 
 
 
7   Financial Instruments
 
The Fund may trade in financial instruments with off-balance sheet risk in the normal course of its investing activities. These financial instruments may include written options and may involve, to a varying degree, elements of risk in excess of the amounts recognized for financial statement purposes. The notional or contractual amounts of these instruments represent the investment the Fund

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Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
 
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS CONT’D
 
 
has in particular classes of financial instruments and do not necessarily represent the amounts potentially subject to risk. The measurement of the risks associated with these instruments is meaningful only when all related and offsetting transactions are considered. A summary of written call options at December 31, 2010 is included in the Portfolio of Investments.
 
Written call options activity for the year ended December 31, 2010 was as follows:
 
                     
    Number of
    Premiums
     
    Contracts     Received      
 
Outstanding, beginning of year
    1,648,909     $ 22,380,075      
Options written
    17,066,915       286,484,774      
Options terminated in closing purchase transactions
    (10,630,694 )     (238,108,336 )    
Options expired
    (6,734,220 )     (48,443,625 )    
 
 
Outstanding, end of year
    1,350,910     $ 22,312,888      
 
 
 
All of the assets of the Fund are subject to segregation to satisfy the requirements of the escrow agent. At December 31, 2010, the Fund had sufficient cash and/or securities to cover commitments under these contracts.
 
The Fund is subject to equity price risk in the normal course of pursuing its investment objectives. The Fund generally intends to write index call options above the current value of the index to generate premium income. In writing index call options, the Fund in effect, sells potential appreciation in the value of the applicable index above the exercise price in exchange for the option premium received. The Fund retains the risk of loss, minus the premium received, should the price of the underlying index decline. The Fund is not subject to counterparty credit risk with respect to its written options as the Fund, not the counterparty, is obligated to perform under such derivatives.
 
The Fund enters into over-the-counter written options that may contain provisions whereby the counterparty may terminate the contract under certain conditions, including but not limited to a decline in the Fund’s net assets below a certain level over a certain period of time, which would trigger a payment by the Fund for those derivatives in a liability position. At December 31, 2010, the fair value of derivatives with credit-related contingent features in a net liability position was $6,096,326. The aggregate fair value of assets pledged as collateral by the Fund for such liability was $4,090,000 at December 31, 2010.
 
The fair value of derivative instruments (not considered to be hedging instruments for accounting disclosure purposes) and whose primary underlying risk exposure is equity price risk at December 31, 2010 was as follows:
 
                     
    Fair Value
     
Derivative   Asset Derivatives     Liability Derivatives(1)       
 
Written options
  $        —     $ (16,252,201 )    
 
(1) Statement of Assets and Liabilities location: Written options outstanding, at value.
 
The effect of derivative instruments (not considered to be hedging instruments for accounting disclosure purposes) on the Statement of Operations and whose primary underlying risk exposure is equity price risk for the year ended December 31, 2010 was as follows:
 
                     
          Change in
     
          Unrealized
     
    Realized Gain
    Appreciation
     
    (Loss) on
    (Depreciation) on
     
    Derivatives
    Derivatives
     
    Recognized in
    Recognized in
     
Derivative   Income(1)      Income(2)       
 
Written options
  $ (59,506,029 )   $ 19,986,930      
 
(1) Statement of Operations location: Net realized gain (loss) – Written options.
 
(2) Statement of Operations location: Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) – Written options.
 
8   Risks Associated with Foreign Investments
 
Investing in securities issued by companies whose principal business activities are outside the United States may involve significant risks not present in domestic investments. For example, there is generally less publicly available information about foreign companies, particularly those not subject to the disclosure and reporting requirements of the U.S. securities laws. Certain foreign issuers are generally not bound by uniform accounting, auditing, and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Investments in foreign securities also involve the risk of possible adverse changes in investment or exchange control regulations, expropriation or confiscatory taxation, limitation on the removal of funds or other assets of the Fund, political or financial instability or diplomatic and other developments which could affect such investments. Foreign securities markets, while growing in volume and sophistication, are generally not as developed as those in the United States, and securities of some foreign issuers (particularly those located in developing countries) may be less liquid and more volatile than securities of comparable U.S. companies. In general, there is less overall governmental supervision and regulation of foreign securities markets, broker-dealers and issuers than in the United States.

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Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
 
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS CONT’D
 
 
9   Fair Value Measurements
 
Under generally accepted accounting principles for fair value measurements, a three-tier hierarchy to prioritize the assumptions, referred to as inputs, is used in valuation techniques to measure fair value. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized in the three broad levels listed below.
 
  •  Level 1 – quoted prices in active markets for identical investments
 
  •  Level 2 – other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)
 
  •  Level 3 – significant unobservable inputs (including a fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
 
In cases where the inputs used to measure fair value fall in different levels of the fair value hierarchy, the level disclosed is determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
 
At December 31, 2010, the hierarchy of inputs used in valuing the Fund’s investments, which are carried at value, were as follows:
 
                                     
    Quoted
                       
    Prices in
                       
    Active
    Significant
                 
    Markets for
    Other
    Significant
           
    Identical
    Observable
    Unobservable
           
    Assets     Inputs     Inputs            
     
Asset Description   (Level 1)     (Level 2)     (Level 3)     Total      
 
Common Stocks
                                   
Consumer Discretionary
  $ 112,069,096     $ 53,472,444     $      —     $ 165,541,540      
Consumer Staples
    54,467,892       72,089,524             126,557,416      
Energy
    55,745,699       58,274,424             114,020,123      
Financials
    73,892,251       124,368,609             198,260,860      
Health Care
    87,621,000       69,419,081             157,040,081      
Industrials
    63,368,503       80,649,939             144,018,442      
Information Technology
    288,166,022       46,121,546             334,287,568      
Materials
    17,048,387       65,052,685             82,101,072      
Telecommunication Services
    23,434,692       43,187,693             66,622,385      
Utilities
    16,006,436       30,856,402             46,862,838      
 
 
Total Common Stocks
  $ 791,819,978     $ 643,492,347 *   $     $ 1,435,312,325      
 
 
Investment Funds
  $     $ 900,556     $     $ 900,556      
 
 
Total Investments
  $ 791,819,978     $ 644,392,903     $     $ 1,436,212,881      
 
 
                                     
Liability Description
                                   
 
 
Call Options Written
  $ (10,155,875 )   $ (6,096,326 )   $     $ (16,252,201 )    
 
 
Total
  $ (10,155,875 )   $ (6,096,326 )   $     $ (16,252,201 )    
 
 
 
* Includes foreign equity securities whose values were adjusted to reflect market trading of comparable securities or other correlated instruments that occurred after the close of trading in their applicable foreign markets.
 
All Level 3 investments held at December 31, 2009 were valued at $0 and were sold during the year ended December 31, 2010 at no gain or loss. At December 31, 2010, the value of investments transferred between Level 1 and Level 2, if any, during the year then ended was not significant.

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Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
 
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
 
To the Trustees and Shareholders of Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund:
We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund (the “Fund”), including the portfolio of investments, as of December 31, 2010, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits.
 
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. The Fund is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Fund’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2010, by correspondence with the custodian and brokers; where replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
 
In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
 
DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
Boston, Massachusetts
February 15, 2011

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Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund as of December 31, 2010
 
FEDERAL TAX INFORMATION (Unaudited)
 
 
The Form 1099-DIV you received in January 2011 showed the tax status of all distributions paid to your account in calendar year 2010. Shareholders are advised to consult their own tax adviser with respect to the tax consequences of their investment in the Fund. As required by the Internal Revenue Code and/or regulations, shareholders must be notified within 60 days of the Fund’s fiscal year end regarding the status of qualified dividend income for individuals, the dividends received deduction for corporations and capital gains dividends.
 
Qualified Dividend Income. The Fund designates approximately $33,233,582, or up to the maximum amount of such dividends allowable pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code, as qualified dividend income eligible for the reduced tax rate of 15%.
 
Dividends Received Deduction. Corporate shareholders are generally entitled to take the dividends received deduction on the portion of the Fund’s dividend distribution that qualifies under tax law. For the Fund’s fiscal 2010 ordinary income dividends, 71.76% qualifies for the corporate dividends received deduction.
 
Capital Gains Dividends. The Fund designates $2,063,115 as a capital gain dividend.

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DIVIDEND REINVESTMENT PLAN
 
 
The Fund offers a dividend reinvestment plan (the Plan) pursuant to which shareholders may elect to have distributions automatically reinvested in common shares (the Shares) of the Fund. American Stock Transfer & Trust Company (AST), the Fund’s Transfer Agent, serves as agent for the shareholders in administering the Plan (Plan Agent). You may elect to participate in the Plan by completing the Dividend Reinvestment Plan Application Form. If you do not participate, you will receive all distributions in cash paid by check mailed directly to you by AST as Plan Agent. On the distribution payment date, if the net asset value per Share is equal to or less than the market price per Share plus estimated brokerage commissions, then new Shares will be issued. The number of Shares shall be determined by the greater of the net asset value per Share or 95% of the market price. Otherwise, Shares generally will be purchased on the open market by the Plan Agent. Distributions subject to income tax (if any) are taxable whether or not shares are reinvested.
 
If your Shares are in the name of a brokerage firm, bank, or other nominee, you can ask the firm or nominee to participate in the Plan on your behalf. If the nominee does not offer the Plan, you will need to request that your Shares be re-registered in your name with AST or you will not be able to participate.
 
The Plan Agent’s service fee for handling distributions will be paid by the Fund. Each participant will be charged their pro-rata share of brokerage commissions on all open-market purchases.
 
Plan participants may withdraw from the Plan at any time by writing to the Plan Agent at the address noted on the following page. If you withdraw, you will receive shares in your name for all Shares credited to your account under the Plan. If a participant elects by written notice to the Plan Agent to have the Plan Agent sell part or all of his or her Shares and remit the proceeds, the Plan Agent is authorized to deduct a $5.00 fee plus brokerage commissions from the proceeds.
 
If you wish to participate in the Plan and your Shares are held in your own name, you may complete the form on the following page and deliver it to the Plan Agent.
 
Any inquiries regarding the Plan can be directed to the Plan Agent at 1-866-439-6787.

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APPLICATION FOR PARTICIPATION IN DIVIDEND REINVESTMENT PLAN
 
 
This form is for shareholders who hold their common shares in their own names. If your common shares are held in the name of a brokerage firm, bank, or other nominee, you should contact your nominee to see if it will participate in the Plan on your behalf. If you wish to participate in the Plan, but your brokerage firm, bank, or nominee is unable to participate on your behalf, you should request that your common shares be re-registered in your own name which will enable your participation in the Plan.
 
The following authorization and appointment is given with the understanding that I may terminate it at any time by terminating my participation in the Plan as provided in the terms and conditions of the Plan.
 
Please print exact name on account:
Shareholder signature                                   Date
Shareholder signature                                   Date
 
Please sign exactly as your common shares are registered. All persons whose names appear on the share certificate must sign.
 
YOU SHOULD NOT RETURN THIS FORM IF YOU WISH TO RECEIVE YOUR DISTRIBUTIONS IN CASH. THIS IS NOT A PROXY.
 
This authorization form, when signed, should be mailed to the following address:
 
Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund
c/o American Stock Transfer & Trust Company
P.O. Box 922
Wall Street Station
New York, NY 10269-0560
 
Number of Employees
The Fund is organized as a Massachusetts business trust and is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as a closed-end management investment company and has no employees.
 
Number of Shareholders
As of December 31, 2010, our records indicate that there are 139 registered shareholders and approximately 70,338 shareholders owning the Fund shares in street name, such as through brokers, banks, and financial intermediaries.
 
If you are a street name shareholder and wish to receive Fund reports directly, which contain important information about the Fund, please write or call:
 
Eaton Vance Distributors, Inc.
Two International Place
Boston, MA 02110
1-800-262-1122
 
New York Stock Exchange symbol
 
The New York Stock Exchange symbol is ETW.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ CONTRACT APPROVAL
 
Overview of the Contract Review Process
 
The Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), provides, in substance, that each investment advisory agreement between a fund and its investment adviser will continue in effect from year to year only if its continuance is approved at least annually by the fund’s board of trustees, including by a vote of a majority of the trustees who are not “interested persons” of the fund (“Independent Trustees”), cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of considering such approval.
 
At a meeting of the Boards of Trustees (each a “Board”) of the Eaton Vance group of mutual funds (the “Eaton Vance Funds”) held on April 26, 2010, the Board, including a majority of the Independent Trustees, voted to approve continuation of existing advisory and sub-advisory agreements for the Eaton Vance Funds for an additional one-year period. In voting its approval, the Board relied upon the affirmative recommendation of the Contract Review Committee of the Board, which is a committee comprised exclusively of Independent Trustees. Prior to making its recommendation, the Contract Review Committee reviewed information furnished for a series of meetings of the Contract Review Committee held between February and April 2010. Such information included, among other things, the following:
 
Information about Fees, Performance and Expenses
 
  •  An independent report comparing the advisory and related fees paid by each fund with fees paid by comparable funds;
  •  An independent report comparing each fund’s total expense ratio and its components to comparable funds;
  •  An independent report comparing the investment performance of each fund (including yield where relevant) to the investment performance of comparable funds over various time periods;
  •  Data regarding investment performance in comparison to relevant peer groups of similarly managed funds and appropriate indices;
  •  For each fund, comparative information concerning the fees charged and the services provided by each adviser in managing other mutual funds and institutional accounts using investment strategies and techniques similar to those used in managing such fund;
  •  Profitability analyses for each adviser with respect to each fund;
 
Information about Portfolio Management
 
  •  Descriptions of the investment management services provided to each fund, including the investment strategies and processes employed, and any changes in portfolio management processes and personnel;
  •  Information concerning the allocation of brokerage and the benefits received by each adviser as a result of brokerage allocation, including information concerning the acquisition of research through “soft dollar” benefits received in connection with the funds’ brokerage, and the implementation of a soft dollar reimbursement program established with respect to the funds;
  •  Data relating to portfolio turnover rates of each fund;
  •  The procedures and processes used to determine the fair value of fund assets and actions taken to monitor and test the effectiveness of such procedures and processes;
 
Information about each Adviser
 
  •  Reports detailing the financial results and condition of each adviser;
  •  Descriptions of the qualifications, education and experience of the individual investment professionals whose responsibilities include portfolio management and investment research for the funds, and information relating to their compensation and responsibilities with respect to managing other mutual funds and investment accounts;
  •  Copies of the Codes of Ethics of each adviser and its affiliates, together with information relating to compliance with and the administration of such codes;
  •  Copies of or descriptions of each adviser’s policies and procedures relating to proxy voting, the handling of corporate actions and class actions;
  •  Information concerning the resources devoted to compliance efforts undertaken by each adviser and its affiliates on behalf of the funds (including descriptions of various compliance programs) and their record of compliance with investment policies and restrictions, including policies with respect to market-timing, late trading and selective portfolio disclosure, and with policies on personal securities transactions;
  •  Descriptions of the business continuity and disaster recovery plans of each adviser and its affiliates;
  •  A description of Eaton Vance Management’s procedures for overseeing third party advisers and sub-advisers;
 
Other Relevant Information
 
  •  Information concerning the nature, cost and character of the administrative and other non-investment management services provided by Eaton Vance Management and its affiliates;
  •  Information concerning management of the relationship with the custodian, subcustodians and fund accountants by each adviser or the funds’ administrator; and
  •  The terms of each advisory agreement.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ CONTRACT APPROVAL CONT’D
 
 
 
In addition to the information identified above, the Contract Review Committee considered information provided from time to time by each adviser throughout the year at meetings of the Board and its committees. Over the course of the twelve-month period ended April 30, 2010, with respect to one or more Funds, the Board met ten times and the Contract Review Committee, the Audit Committee, the Governance Committee, the Portfolio Management Committee and the Compliance Reports and Regulatory Matters Committee, each of which is a Committee comprised solely of Independent Trustees, met nine, thirteen, three, eight and fifteen times, respectively. At such meetings, the Trustees received, among other things, presentations by the portfolio managers and other investment professionals of each adviser relating to the investment performance of each fund and the investment strategies used in pursuing the fund’s investment objective including, where relevant, the use of derivative instruments, as well as trading policies and procedures and risk management techniques.
 
For funds that invest through one or more underlying portfolios, the Board considered similar information about the portfolio(s) when considering the approval of advisory agreements. In addition, in cases where the fund’s investment adviser has engaged a sub-adviser, the Board considered similar information about the sub-adviser when considering the approval of any sub-advisory agreement.
 
The Contract Review Committee was assisted throughout the contract review process by Goodwin Procter LLP, legal counsel for the Independent Trustees. The members of the Contract Review Committee relied upon the advice of such counsel and their own business judgment in determining the material factors to be considered in evaluating each advisory and sub-advisory agreement and the weight to be given to each such factor. The conclusions reached with respect to each advisory and sub-advisory agreement were based on a comprehensive evaluation of all the information provided and not any single factor. Moreover, each member of the Contract Review Committee may have placed varying emphasis on particular factors in reaching conclusions with respect to each advisory and sub-advisory agreement.
 
Results of the Process
 
Based on its consideration of the foregoing, and such other information as it deemed relevant, including the factors and conclusions described below, the Contract Review Committee concluded that the continuance of the investment advisory agreement of Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund (the “Fund”) with Eaton Vance Management (the “Adviser”) and the sub-advisory agreement with Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC (the “Sub-adviser”), including their fee structures, is in the interests of shareholders and, therefore, the Contract Review Committee recommended to the Board approval of each agreement. The Board accepted the recommendation of the Contract Review Committee as well as the factors considered and conclusions reached by the Contract Review Committee with respect to the agreements. Accordingly, the Board, including a majority of the Independent Trustees, voted to approve continuation of the investment advisory agreement and sub-advisory agreement for the Fund.
 
Nature, Extent and Quality of Services
 
In considering whether to approve the investment advisory agreement and sub-advisory agreement of the Fund, the Board evaluated the nature, extent and quality of services provided to the Fund by the Adviser and the Sub-adviser.
 
The Board considered the Adviser’s and the Sub-adviser’s management capabilities and investment process with respect to the types of investments held by the Fund, including the education, experience and number of its investment professionals and other personnel who provide portfolio management, investment research, and similar services to the Fund and whose responsibilities include supervising the Sub-adviser and coordinating its activities in implementing the Fund’s investment strategy. The Board evaluated, where relevant, the abilities and experience of such investment personnel in analyzing factors such as tax efficiency and special considerations relevant to investing in stocks and selling call options on the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100. With respect to the Sub-adviser, the Board noted the Sub-adviser’s experience in deploying quantitative-based investment strategies. The Board also took into account the resources dedicated to portfolio management and other services, including the compensation methods to recruit and retain investment personnel, and the time and attention devoted to the Fund by senior management.
 
The Board also reviewed the compliance programs of the Adviser and relevant affiliates thereof, including the Sub-adviser. Among other matters, the Board considered compliance and reporting matters relating to personal trading by investment personnel, selective disclosure of portfolio holdings, late trading, frequent trading, portfolio valuation, business continuity and the allocation of investment opportunities. The Board also evaluated the responses of the Adviser and its affiliates to requests in recent years from regulatory authorities such as the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
 
The Board considered shareholder and other administrative services provided or managed by the Adviser and its affiliates, including transfer agency and accounting services. The Board evaluated the benefits to shareholders of investing in a fund that is a part of a large family of funds.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ CONTRACT APPROVAL CONT’D
 
 
After consideration of the foregoing factors, among others, the Board concluded that the nature, extent and quality of services provided by the Adviser and Sub-adviser, taken as a whole, are appropriate and consistent with the terms of the investment advisory agreement and sub-advisory agreement.
 
Fund Performance
 
The Board compared the Fund’s investment performance to a relevant universe of comparable funds identified by an independent data provider as well as a peer group of similarly managed funds and appropriate benchmark indices. The Board reviewed comparative performance data for the one- and three-year periods ended September 30, 2009 for the Fund. The Board concluded that the performance of the Fund was satisfactory.
 
Management Fees and Expenses
 
The Board reviewed contractual investment advisory fee rates payable by the Fund (referred to as “management fees”). As part of its review, the Board considered the management fees and the Fund’s total expense ratio for the year ended September 30, 2009, as compared to a group of similarly managed funds selected by an independent data provider. The Board also considered factors that had an impact on Fund expense ratios, as identified by management in response to inquiries from the Contract Review Committee, as well as actions being taken to reduce expenses at the Eaton Vance fund complex level.
 
After reviewing the foregoing information, and in light of the nature, extent and quality of the services provided by the Adviser and the Sub-adviser, the Board concluded that the management fees charged for advisory and related services are reasonable.
 
Profitability
 
The Board reviewed the level of profits realized by the Adviser and relevant affiliates thereof, including the Sub-adviser, in providing investment advisory and administrative services to the Fund and to all Eaton Vance Funds as a group. The Board considered the level of profits realized with and without regard to revenue sharing or other payments by the Adviser and its affiliates to third parties in respect of distribution services. The Board also considered other direct or indirect benefits received by the Adviser and its affiliates in connection with its relationship with the Fund, including the benefits of research services that may be available to the Adviser or Sub-adviser as a result of securities transactions effected for the Fund and other investment advisory clients.
 
The Board concluded that, in light of the foregoing factors and the nature, extent and quality of the services rendered, the profits realized by the Adviser and its affiliates, including the Sub-adviser, are reasonable.
 
Economies of Scale
 
In reviewing management fees and profitability, the Board also considered the extent to which the Adviser and its affiliates, on the one hand, and the Fund, on the other hand, can expect to realize benefits from economies of scale as the assets of the Fund increase. The Board acknowledged the difficulty in accurately measuring the benefits resulting from the economies of scale with respect to the management of any specific fund or group of funds. The Board also considered the fact that the Fund is not continuously offered and concluded that, in light of the level of the Adviser’s profits with respect to the Fund, the implementation of breakpoints in the advisory fee schedule is not appropriate at this time. Based upon the foregoing, the Board concluded that the benefits from economies of scale are currently being shared equitably by the Adviser and its affiliates and the Fund.

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MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION
 
 
Fund Management. The Trustees of Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund (the Fund) are responsible for the overall management and supervision of the Fund’s affairs. The Trustees and officers of the Fund are listed below. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the last five years. The “Noninterested Trustees” consist of those Trustees who are not “interested persons” of the Fund, as that term is defined under the 1940 Act. The business address of each Trustee and officer is Two International Place, Boston, Massachusetts 02110. As used below, “EVC” refers to Eaton Vance Corporation, “EV” refers to Eaton Vance, Inc., “EVM” refers to Eaton Vance Management, “BMR” refers to Boston Management and Research and “EVD” refers to Eaton Vance Distributors, Inc. EVC and EV are the corporate parent and trustee, respectively, of EVM and BMR. EVD is a wholly-owned subsidiary of EVC. Each officer affiliated with Eaton Vance may hold a position with other Eaton Vance affiliates that is comparable to his or her position with EVM listed below.
 
                         
        Term of
      Number of Portfolios
     
    Position(s)
  Office and
  Principal Occupation(s)
  in Fund Complex
     
Name and
  with the
  Length of
  During Past Five Years and
  Overseen By
    Other Directorships Held
Year of Birth   Fund   Service   Other Relevant Experience   Trustee(1)     During the Last Five Years(2)
 
 
 
Interested Trustee
                         
Thomas E. Faust Jr.
1958
  Class I
Trustee
  Until 2012.
3 years.
Trustee since 2007.
  Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of EVC, Director and President of EV, Chief Executive Officer and President of EVM and BMR, and Director of EVD. Trustee and/or officer of 175 registered investment companies and 1 private investment company managed by EVM or BMR. Mr. Faust is an interested person because of his positions with EVM, BMR, EVD, EVC and EV, which are affiliates of the Fund.     175     Director of EVC.
 
Noninterested Trustees
                         
Benjamin C. Esty
1963
  Class I
Trustee
  Until 2012.
3 years.
Trustee since 2005.
  Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration and Finance Unit Head, Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.     175     None
                         
Allen R. Freedman
1940
  Class I
Trustee
  Until 2012.
3 years.
Trustee since 2007.
  Private Investor and Consultant. Former Chairman (2002-2004) and a Director (1983-2004) of Systems & Computer Technology Corp. (provider of software to higher education). Formerly, a Director of Loring Ward International (fund distributor) (2005-2007). Formerly, Chairman and a Director of Indus International, Inc. (provider of enterprise management software to the power generating industry) (2005-2007).     175     Director of Assurant, Inc. (insurance provider) and Stonemor Partners, L.P. (owner and operator of cemeteries).
                         
William H. Park
1947
  Class II
Trustee
  Until 2013.
3 years.
Trustee since 2005.
  Chief Financial Officer, Aveon Group L.P. (an investment management firm) (since 2010). Formerly, Vice Chairman, Commercial Industrial Finance Corp. (specialty finance company) (2006-2010). Formerly, President and Chief Executive Officer, Prizm Capital Management, LLC (investment management firm) (2002-2005). Formerly, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, United Asset Management Corporation (an institutional investment management firm) (1982-2001). Formerly, Senior Manager, Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) (an independent registered public accounting firm) (1972-1981).     175     None
                         
Ronald A. Pearlman
1940
  Class II
Trustee
  Until 2013.
3 years.
Trustee since 2005.
  Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center. Formerly, Deputy Assistant Secretary (Tax Policy) and Assistant Secretary (Tax Policy), U.S. Department of the Treasury (1983-1985). Formerly, Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress (1988-1990).     175     None
                         
Helen Frame Peters
1948
  Class III
Trustee
  Until 2011.
3 years.
Trustee since 2008.
  Professor of Finance, Carroll School of Management, Boston College. Formerly, Dean, Carroll School of Management, Boston College (2000-2002). Formerly, Chief Investment Officer, Fixed Income, Scudder Kemper Investments (investment management firm) (1998-1999). Formerly, Chief Investment Officer, Equity and Fixed Income, Colonial Management Associates (investment management firm) (1991-1998).     175     Director of BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc. (wholesale club retailer). Formerly, Trustee of SPDR Index Shares Funds and SPDR Series Trust (exchange traded funds) (2000-2009). Formerly, Director of Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston (a bank for banks) (2007-2009).

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MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION CONT’D
 
 
                         
        Term of
      Number of Portfolios
     
    Position(s)
  Office and
  Principal Occupation(s)
  in Fund Complex
     
Name and
  with the
  Length of
  During Past Five Years and
  Overseen By
    Other Directorships Held
Year of Birth   Fund   Service   Other Relevant Experience   Trustee(1)     During the Last Five Years(2)
 
 
Noninterested Trustees (continued)
                         
Lynn A. Stout
1957
  Class III
Trustee
  Until 2011.
3 years.
Trustee since 2005.
  Paul Hastings Professor of Corporate and Securities Law (since 2006) and Professor of Law (2001-2006), University of California at Los Angeles School of Law. Professor Stout teaches classes in corporate law and securities regulation and is the author of numerous academic and professional papers on these areas.     175     None
                         
Ralph F. Verni
1943
  Chairman of
the Board
and Class III
Trustee
  Until 2011.
3 years.
Trustee since 2005 and Chairman of the Board since 2007.
  Consultant and private investor. Formerly, Chief Investment Officer (1982-1992), Chief Financial Officer (1988-1990) and Director (1982-1992), New England Life. Formerly, Chairperson, New England Mutual Funds (1982-1992). Formerly, President and Chief Executive Officer, State Street Management & Research (1992-2000). Formerly, Chairperson, State Street Research Mutual Funds (1992-2000). Formerly, Director, W.P. Carey, LLC (1998-2004) and First Pioneer Farm Credit Corp. (2002-2006).     175     None
 
Principal Officers who are not Trustees
 
             
        Term of
   
    Position(s)
  Office and
   
Name and
  with the
  Length of
  Principal Occupation(s)
Year of Birth   Fund   Service   During Past Five Years
 
             
Walter A. Row, III
1957
  President(3)   Since 2011   Vice President of EVM and BMR. Officer of 32 registered investment companies managed by EVM or BMR.
             
Michael A. Allison
1964
  Vice President   Since 2011   Vice President of EVM and BMR. Officer of 27 registered investment companies managed by EVM or BMR.
             
Duncan W. Richardson
1957
  Vice President(4)   Since 2011   Director of EVC and Executive Vice President and Chief Equity Investment Officer of EVC, EVM and BMR. Officer of 88 registered investment companies managed by EVM or BMR.
             
Barbara E. Campbell
1957
  Treasurer   Since 2005   Vice President of EVM and BMR. Officer of 175 registered investment companies managed by EVM or BMR.
             
Maureen A. Gemma
1960
  Secretary and
Chief Legal Officer
  Secretary since 2007 and Chief Legal Officer
since 2008
  Vice President of EVM and BMR. Officer of 175 registered investment companies managed by EVM or BMR.
             
Paul M. O’Neil
1953
  Chief Compliance Officer   Since 2005   Vice President of EVM and BMR. Officer of 175 registered investment companies managed by EVM or BMR.
 
(1) Includes both master and feeder funds in a master-feeder structure.
 
(2) During their respective tenures, the Trustees also served as trustees of one or more of the following Eaton Vance funds (which operated in the years noted): Eaton Vance Credit Opportunities Fund (launched in 2005 and terminated in 2010); Eaton Vance Insured Florida Plus Municipal Bond Fund (launched in 2002 and terminated in 2009); and Eaton Vance National Municipal Income Trust (launched in 1998 and terminated in 2009).
 
(3) Prior to 2011, Mr. Row served as Vice President of the Fund since 2005.
 
(4) Prior to 2011, Mr. Richardson served as President of the Fund since 2005.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT PRIVACY
 
The Eaton Vance organization is committed to ensuring your financial privacy. Each of the financial institutions identified below has in effect the following policy (Privacy Policy) with respect to nonpublic personal information about its customers:
 
•   Only such information received from you, through application forms or otherwise, and information about your Eaton Vance fund transactions will be collected. This may include information such as name, address, social security number, tax status, account balances and transactions.
 
•   None of such information about you (or former customers) will be disclosed to anyone, except as permitted by law (which includes disclosure to employees necessary to service your account). In the normal course of servicing a customer’s account, Eaton Vance may share information with unaffiliated third parties that perform various required services such as transfer agents, custodians and broker/dealers.
 
•   Policies and procedures (including physical, electronic and procedural safeguards) are in place that are designed to protect the confidentiality of such information.
 
•   We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy at any time upon proper notification to you. Customers may want to review our Privacy Policy periodically for changes by accessing the link on our homepage: www.eatonvance.com.
 
Our pledge of privacy applies to the following entities within the Eaton Vance organization: the Eaton Vance Family of Funds, Eaton Vance Management, Eaton Vance Investment Counsel, Boston Management and Research, and Eaton Vance Distributors, Inc. Our Privacy Policy applies only to those Eaton Vance customers who are individuals and who have a direct relationship with us. If a customer’s account (i.e., fund shares) is held in the name of a third-party financial adviser/broker-dealer, it is likely that only such adviser’s privacy policies apply to the customer. This notice supersedes all previously issued privacy disclosures. For more information about Eaton Vance’s Privacy Policy, please call 1-800-262-1122.
 
 
Investment Adviser and Administrator of
Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund
Eaton Vance Management
Two International Place
Boston, MA 02110
 
 
 
Sub-Adviser of
Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund
Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC
1918 Eighth Avenue, Suite 3100
Seattle, WA 98101
 
 
 
Custodian
State Street Bank and Trust Company
200 Clarendon Street
Boston, MA 02116
 
 
 
Transfer Agent
American Stock Transfer & Trust Company
59 Maiden Lane
Plaza Level
New York, New York 10038
 
 
 
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Deloitte & Touche LLP
200 Berkeley Street
Boston, MA 02116-5022
 
 
Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund
Two International Place
Boston, MA 02110


 

 
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Item 2. Code of Ethics
The registrant has adopted a code of ethics applicable to its Principal Executive Officer, Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer. The registrant undertakes to provide a copy of such code of ethics to any person upon request, without charge, by calling 1-800-262-1122.
Item 3. Audit Committee Financial Expert
The registrant’s Board has designated William H. Park, an independent trustee, as its audit committee financial expert. Mr. Park is a certified public accountant who is the Chief Financial Officer of Aveon Group, L.P. (an investment management firm). Previously, he served as the Vice Chairman of Commercial Industrial Finance Corp. (specialty finance company), as President and Chief Executive Officer of Prizm Capital Management, LLC (investment management firm), as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of United Asset Management Corporation (an institutional investment management firm) and as a Senior Manager at Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) (an independent registered public accounting firm).
Item 4. Principal Accountant Fees and Services
(a) –(d)
The following table presents the aggregate fees billed to the registrant for the registrant’s fiscal years ended December 31, 2009 and December 31, 2010 by the registrant’s principal accountant, Deloitte & Touche LLP (“D&T”), for professional services rendered for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements and fees billed for other services rendered by D&T during such periods.
                 
Fiscal Years Ended   12/31/09     12/31/10  
 
Audit Fees
  $ 38,170     $ 38,170  
 
Audit-Related Fees(1)
  $ 0     $ 0  
 
Tax Fees(2)
  $ 8,200     $ 8,200  
 
All Other Fees(3)
  $ 2,500     $ 1,900  
       
 
Total
  $ 48,870     $ 48,270  
       
 
(1)   Audit-related fees consist of the aggregate fees billed for assurance and related services that are reasonably related to the performance of the audit of financial statements and are not reported under the category of audit fees.
 
(2)   Tax fees consist of the aggregate fees billed for professional services rendered by the principal accountant relating to tax compliance, tax advice, and tax planning and specifically include fees for tax return preparation.
 
(3)   All other fees consist of the aggregate fees billed for products and services provided by the principal accountant other than audit, audit-related, and tax services.
(e)(1) The registrant’s audit committee has adopted policies and procedures relating to the pre-approval of services provided by the registrant’s principal accountant (the “Pre-Approval Policies”). The Pre-Approval Policies establish a framework intended to assist the audit committee in the proper discharge of its pre-approval responsibilities. As a general matter, the Pre-Approval Policies (i) specify certain types of audit, audit-related, tax, and other services determined to be pre-approved by the audit committee; and (ii) delineate specific procedures governing the mechanics of the pre-approval process, including the approval and monitoring of audit and non-audit service fees. Unless a service is specifically pre-approved under the Pre-Approval Policies, it must be separately pre-approved by the audit committee.
The Pre-Approval Policies and the types of audit and non-audit services pre-approved therein must be reviewed and ratified by the registrant’s audit committee at least annually. The registrant’s audit committee maintains full responsibility for the appointment, compensation, and oversight of the work of the registrant’s principal accountant.
(e)(2) No services described in paragraphs (b)-(d) above were approved by the registrant’s audit committee pursuant to the “de minimis exception” set forth in Rule 2-01(c)(7)(i)(C) of Regulation S-X.
(f) Not applicable.
(g) The following table presents (i) the aggregate non-audit fees (i.e., fees for audit-related, tax, and other services) billed to the registrant by D&T for the registrant’s fiscal years ended December 31,

 


 

2009 and December 31, 2010; and (ii) the aggregate non-audit fees (i.e., fees for audit-related, tax, and other services) billed to the Eaton Vance organization by D&T for the same time periods.
                 
Fiscal Years Ended   12/31/09     12/31/10  
 
Registrant
  $ 10,700     $ 10,100  
 
Eaton Vance(1)
  $ 288,295     $ 250,973  
 
(1)   The investment adviser to the registrant, as well as any of its affiliates that provide ongoing services to the registrant, are subsidiaries of Eaton Vance Corp.
(h) The registrant’s audit committee has considered whether the provision by the registrant’s principal accountant of non-audit services to the registrant’s investment adviser and any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the adviser that provides ongoing services to the registrant that were not pre-approved pursuant to Rule 2-01(c)(7)(ii) of Regulation S-X is compatible with maintaining the principal accountant’s independence.
Item 5. Audit Committee of Listed Registrants
The registrant has a separately-designated standing audit committee established in accordance with Section 3(a)(58)(A) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. William H. Park (Chair), Helen Frame Peters, Lynn A. Stout and Ralph F. Verni are the members of the registrant’s audit committee.
Item 6. Schedule of Investments
Please see schedule of investments contained in the Report to Stockholders included under Item 1 of this Form N-CSR.
Item 7. Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies
The Board of Trustees of the Trust has adopted a proxy voting policy and procedure (the “Fund Policy”), pursuant to which the Trustees have delegated proxy voting responsibility to the Fund’s investment adviser and adopted the investment adviser’s proxy voting policies and procedures (the “Policies”) which are described below. The Trustees will review the Fund’s proxy voting records from time to time and will annually consider approving the Policies for the upcoming year. In the event that a conflict of interest arises between the Fund’s shareholders and the investment adviser, the administrator, or any of their affiliates or any affiliate of the Fund, the investment adviser will generally refrain from voting the proxies related to the companies giving rise to such conflict until it consults with the Board’s Special Committee except as contemplated under the Fund Policy. The Board’s Special Committee will instruct the investment adviser on the appropriate course of action.
The Policies are designed to promote accountability of a company’s management to its shareholders and to align the interests of management with those shareholders. An independent proxy voting service (“Agent”), currently Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc., has been retained to assist in the voting of proxies through the provision of vote analysis, implementation and recordkeeping and disclosure services. The investment adviser will generally vote proxies through the Agent. The Agent is required to vote all proxies and/or refer them back to the investment adviser pursuant to the Policies. It is generally the policy of the investment adviser to vote in accordance with the recommendation of the Agent. The Agent shall refer to the investment adviser proxies relating to mergers and restructurings,

 


 

and the disposition of assets, termination, liquidation and mergers contained in mutual fund proxies. The investment adviser will normally vote against anti-takeover measures and other proposals designed to limit the ability of shareholders to act on possible transactions, except in the case of closed-end management investment companies. The investment adviser generally supports management on social and environmental proposals. The investment adviser may abstain from voting from time to time where it determines that the costs associated with voting a proxy outweighs the benefits derived from exercising the right to vote or the economic effect on shareholders interests or the value of the portfolio holding is indeterminable or insignificant.
In addition, the investment adviser will monitor situations that may result in a conflict of interest between the Fund’s shareholders and the investment adviser, the administrator, or any of their affiliates or any affiliate of the Fund by maintaining a list of significant existing and prospective corporate clients. The investment adviser’s personnel responsible for reviewing and voting proxies on behalf of the Fund will report any proxy received or expected to be received from a company included on that list to the personnel of the investment adviser identified in the Policies. If such personnel expects to instruct the Agent to vote such proxies in a manner inconsistent with the guidelines of the Policies or the recommendation of the Agent, the personnel will consult with members of senior management of the investment adviser to determine if a material conflict of interests exists. If it is determined that a material conflict does exist, the investment adviser will seek instruction on how to vote from the Special Committee.
Information on how the Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12 month period ended June 30 is available (1) without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-262-1122, and (2) on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov.
Item 8. Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies
Eaton Vance Management (“EVM”) is investment adviser to the Fund. EVM has engaged its affiliate, Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC (“Parametric”), as a sub-adviser to the Fund responsible for structuring and managing the Fund’s common stock portfolio, including tax-loss harvesting and other tax-management techniques.
Walter A. Row and other EVM investment professionals comprise the investment team responsible for managing the Fund’s overall investment program, providing the sub-advisers with research support and supervising the performance of the sub-advisers. Mr. Row is the portfolio manager responsible for the day-to-day management of EVM’s responsibilities with respect to the Fund’s investment portfolio. Mr. Row is a Vice President and Head of Structured Equity Portfolios at EVM. He is a member of EVM’s Equity Strategy Committee and co-manages other Eaton Vance registered investment companies. He joined Eaton Vance’s equity group in 1996.
David M. Stein, Ph.D. and Thomas Seto are the Parametric portfolio managers responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s common stock portfolio. Mr. Stein is Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer at Parametric, where he leads the investment, research and technology activities. Prior to joining Parametric, Mr. Stein held senior research, development and portfolio management positions at GTE Investment Management Corp, the Vanguard Group and IBM Retirement Funds. Mr. Seto is a Vice President and the Director of Portfolio Management at Parametric where he is responsible for all portfolio management, including taxable, tax-exempt, quantitative-active and international strategies. Prior to joining Parametric, Mr. Seto served as the Head of U.S. Equity Index Investments at Barclays Global Investors.
The following table shows, as of the Fund’s most recent fiscal year end, the number of accounts each portfolio manager managed in each of the listed categories and the total assets (in millions of dollars)

 


 

in the accounts managed within each category. The table also shows the number of accounts with respect to which the advisory fee is based on the performance of the account, if any, and the total assets (in millions of dollars) in those accounts.
                                 
                    Number of Accounts   Total Assets
    Number of All   Total Assets of All   Paying a   of Accounts Paying
    Accounts   Accounts   Performance Fee   a Performance Fee
Walter A. Row
                               
Registered Investment Companies
    10     $ 10,482.7       0     $ 0  
Other Pooled Investment Vehicles
    1     $ 2.5       0     $ 0  
Other Accounts
    0     $ 0       0     $ 0  
 
                               
David M. Stein
                               
Registered Investment Companies
    13     $ 9,656.3       0     $ 0  
Other Pooled Investment Vehicles
    1     $ 388.2       0     $ 0  
Other Accounts
    2,045 (1)   $ 23,333.2       2     $ 1,009.5  
 
                               
Thomas Seto
                               
Registered Investment Companies
    13     $ 9,656.3       0     $ 0  
Other Pooled Investment Vehicles
    1     $ 388.2       0     $ 0  
Other Accounts
    2,045 (1)   $ 23,333.2       2     $ 1,009.5  
 
(1)   For “Other Accounts” that are part of a wrap account program, the number of accounts cited includes the number of sponsors for which the portfolio manager provides management services rather than the number of individual customer accounts within each wrap account program.
The following table shows the dollar range of Fund shares beneficially by each portfolio manager as of the Fund’s most recent fiscal year end.
         
    Dollar Range of Equity
Portfolio Manager   Securities Owned in the Fund
Walter A. Row
  $ 10,001 - $50,000  
David M. Stein
  None
Thomas Seto
  None
Potential for Conflicts of Interest. It is possible that conflicts of interest may arise in connection with a portfolio manager’s management of a Fund’s investments on the one hand and the investments of other accounts for which the portfolio manager is responsible on the other. For example, a portfolio manager may have conflicts of interest in allocating management time, resources and investment opportunities among the Fund and other accounts he or she advises. In addition, due to differences in the investment strategies or restrictions between a Fund and the other accounts, a portfolio manager may take action with respect to another account that differs from the action taken with respect to the Fund. In some cases, another account managed by a portfolio manager may compensate EVM or the sub-adviser based on the performance of the securities held by that account. The existence of such a performance based fee may create additional conflicts of interest for the portfolio manager in the allocation of management time, resources and investment opportunities. Whenever conflicts of interest arise, the portfolio manager will endeavor to exercise his or her discretion in a manner that he or she believes is equitable to all interested persons. EVM and the sub-adviser have adopted several policies and procedures designed to address these potential conflicts including a code of ethics and policies which govern EVM’s and the sub-adviser’s trading practices, including among other things the aggregation and allocation of trades among clients, brokerage allocation, cross trades and best execution.
Compensation Structure for EVM

 


 

Compensation of EVM’s portfolio managers and other investment professionals has three primary components: (1) a base salary, (2) an annual cash bonus, and (3) annual stock-based compensation consisting of options to purchase shares of EVC’s nonvoting common stock and restricted shares of EVC’s nonvoting common stock. EVM’s investment professionals also receive certain retirement, insurance and other benefits that are broadly available to EVM’s employees. Compensation of EVM’s investment professionals is reviewed primarily on an annual basis. Cash bonuses, stock-based compensation awards, and adjustments in base salary are typically paid or put into effect at or shortly after the October 31st fiscal year end of EVC.
Method to Determine Compensation. EVM compensates its portfolio managers based primarily on the scale and complexity of their portfolio responsibilities and the total return performance of managed funds and accounts versus the benchmark(s) stated in the prospectus, as well as an appropriate peer group (as described below). In addition to rankings within peer groups of funds on the basis of absolute performance, consideration may also be given to relative risk-adjusted performance. Risk-adjusted performance measures include, but are not limited to, the Sharpe Ratio. Performance is normally based on periods ending on the September 30th preceding fiscal year end. Fund performance is normally evaluated primarily versus peer groups of funds as determined by Lipper Inc. and/or Morningstar, Inc. When a fund’s peer group as determined by Lipper or Morningstar is deemed by EVM’s management not to provide a fair comparison, performance may instead be evaluated primarily against a custom peer group. In evaluating the performance of a fund and its manager, primary emphasis is normally placed on three-year performance, with secondary consideration of performance over longer and shorter periods. For funds that are tax-managed or otherwise have an objective of after-tax returns, performance is measured net of taxes. For other funds, performance is evaluated on a pre-tax basis. For funds with an investment objective other than total return (such as current income), consideration will also be given to the fund’s success in achieving its objective. For managers responsible for multiple funds and accounts, investment performance is evaluated on an aggregate basis, based on averages or weighted averages among managed funds and accounts. Funds and accounts that have performance-based advisory fees are not accorded disproportionate weightings in measuring aggregate portfolio manager performance.
The compensation of portfolio managers with other job responsibilities (such as heading an investment group or providing analytical support to other portfolios) will include consideration of the scope of such responsibilities and the managers’ performance in meeting them.
EVM seeks to compensate portfolio managers commensurate with their responsibilities and performance, and competitive with other firms within the investment management industry. EVM participates in investment-industry compensation surveys and utilizes survey data as a factor in determining salary, bonus and stock-based compensation levels for portfolio managers and other investment professionals. Salaries, bonuses and stock-based compensation are also influenced by the operating performance of EVM and its parent company. The overall annual cash bonus pool is based on a substantially fixed percentage of pre-bonus operating income. While the salaries of EVM’s portfolio managers are comparatively fixed, cash bonuses and stock-based compensation may fluctuate significantly from year to year, based on changes in manager performance and other factors as described herein. For a high performing portfolio manager, cash bonuses and stock-based compensation may represent a substantial portion of total compensation.
Compensation Structure for Parametric
Compensation of Parametric portfolio managers and other investment professionals has three primary components: (1) a base salary, (2) a cash bonus, and (3) annual stock-based compensation consisting of options to purchase shares of EVC’s nonvoting common stock, restricted shares of EVC’s nonvoting common stock and, for certain individuals, grants of profit participation interests in

 


 

Parametric. Parametric investment professionals also receive certain retirement, insurance and other benefits that are broadly available to Parametric employees. Compensation of Parametric investment professionals is reviewed primarily on an annual basis. Stock-based compensation awards and adjustments in base salary and bonus are typically paid and/or put into effect at or shortly after calendar year-end.
Method to Determine Compensation. Parametric seeks to compensate portfolio managers commensurate with their responsibilities and performance, and competitive with other firms within the investment management industry. The performance of portfolio managers is evaluated primarily based on success in achieving portfolio objectives for managed funds and accounts. The compensation of portfolio managers with other job responsibilities (such as product development) will include consideration of the scope of such responsibilities and the managers’ performance in meeting them.
Salaries, bonuses and stock-based compensation are also influenced by the operating performance of Parametric and EVC, its parent company. Cash bonuses are determined based on a target percentage of Parametric profits. While the salaries of Parametric portfolio managers are comparatively fixed, cash bonuses and stock-based compensation may fluctuate substantially from year to year, based on changes in financial performance and other factors.
Item 9. Purchases of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Company and Affiliated Purchasers
No such purchases this period.
Item 10. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
No Material Changes.
Item 11. 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 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 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 second fiscal quarter of the period covered by this report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
Item 12. Exhibits
(a)(1)   Registrant’s Code of Ethics — Not applicable (please see Item 2).
 
(a)(2)(i)   Treasurer’s Section 302 certification.
 
(a)(2)(ii)   President’s Section 302 certification.

 


 

(b)   Combined Section 906 certification.
 
(c)   Registrant’s notices to shareholders pursuant to Registrant’s exemptive order granting an exemption from Section 19(b) of the 1940 Act and Rule 19b-1 thereunder regarding distributions paid pursuant to the Registrant’s Managed Distribution Plan.

 


 

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-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund
 
       
By:
  /s/ Walter A. Row, III    
 
 
 
Walter A. Row, III
   
 
  President    
 
       
Date:
  February 14, 2011    
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/ Barbara E. Campbell    
 
 
 
Barbara E. Campbell
   
 
  Treasurer    
 
       
Date:
  February 14, 2011    
 
       
By:
  /s/ Walter A. Row, III    
 
 
 
Walter A. Row, III
   
 
  President    
 
       
Date:
  February 14, 2011