David Morris Stein

Eaton Vance Short Duration Strategic Income Fund is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is to provide a high level of current income. Its secondary objective is to seek capital appreciation to the extent consistent with its primary goal of high current income. The Fund currently invests in Cash Reserves Fund. The company was founded on November 26, 1990 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC (Parametric) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The firm was founded in 1987 and is directly owned by Eaton Vance Acquisitions LLC. They became ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in 2021. Parametric provides various portfolio management services and investment strategies directly to institutional investors and indirectly to individual investors through financial intermediaries.

IBM Retirement Fund is the defined benefit plan manager for IBM Corp.'s (NYSE: IBM) employees. It was formed in 1983 and headquartered in Armonk, New York.

The Vanguard Group, Inc. (VGI) is an independent registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded in 1975 by John Bogle. In 1976, they introduced the first indexed mutual fund, the First Index Investment Trust (now known as the Vanguard 500 Index Fund), to individual investors. VGI provides investment advisory services to Vanguard family of funds and Vanguard's non-US clients, which are comprised of the following: (1) funds established as trusts under the laws of the Province of Ontario in Canada and (2) separate account clients of Vanguard's international subsidiaries.