Key information

🔎 Fund Overview

Blackrock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust (the Trust) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Trust's primary investment objective is to provide current income and current gains, with a secondary investment objective of long-term capital appreciation. It seeks to achieve its investment objectives by investing in common stocks that pay dividends and have the potential for capital appreciation and by utilizing an option writing strategy to enhance distributions to its shareholders. It invests at least 80% of its total assets in dividend-paying equities and may invest up to 20% of its total assets in equity securities of issuers. It may invest directly in such securities or synthetically through the use of derivatives. It invests in sectors, such as information technology, consumer discretionary, communication services, financials, health care, industrials, materials, energy, consumer staples, and real estate. Its investment manager is BlackRock Advisors, LLC.