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ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000315066-13-003902
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: SC 13G/A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1
FILED AS OF DATE: 20130910
DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20130910
SUBJECT COMPANY:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Education Realty Trust, Inc.
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001302343
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS [6798]
IRS NUMBER: 201352180
STATE OF INCORPORATION: MD
FISCAL YEAR END: 1231
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: SC 13G/A
SEC ACT: 1934 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 005-80598
FILM NUMBER: 131087047
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 999 SOUTH SHADY GROVE ROAD,
STREET 2: SUITE 600
CITY: MEMPHIS
STATE: TN
ZIP: 38120
BUSINESS PHONE: (901) 259-2500
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 999 SOUTH SHADY GROVE ROAD,
STREET 2: SUITE 600
CITY: MEMPHIS
STATE: TN
ZIP: 38120
FILED BY:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: FMR LLC
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000315066
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: UNKNOWN SIC - 0000 [0000]
IRS NUMBER: 061209781
STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE
FISCAL YEAR END: 1231
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: SC 13G/A
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 245 SUMMER STREET
CITY: BOSTON
STATE: MA
ZIP: 02210
BUSINESS PHONE: 6175706339
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 245 SUMMER STREET
CITY: BOSTON
STATE: MA
ZIP: 02210
FORMER COMPANY:
FORMER CONFORMED NAME: FMR CORP
DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920717
SC 13G/A
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filing.txt
SCHEDULE 13G
Amendment No. 4
Education Realty Trust Incorporated
Common Stock
Cusip #28140H104
Cusip #28140H104
Item 1: Reporting Person - FMR LLC
Item 4: Delaware
Item 5: 1,583,421
Item 6: 0
Item 7: 7,683,302
Item 8: 0
Item 9: 7,683,302
Item 11: 6.692%
Item 12: HC
Cusip #28140H104
Item 1: Reporting Person - Edward C. Johnson 3d
Item 4: United States of America
Item 5: 0
Item 6: 0
Item 7: 7,683,302
Item 8: 0
Item 9: 7,683,302
Item 11: 6.692%
Item 12: IN
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
Item 1(a). Name of Issuer:
Education Realty Trust Incorporated
Item 1(b). Name of Issuer's Principal Executive Offices:
530 Oak Court Drive
Suite 300
Memphis, TN 38117
Item 2(a). Name of Person Filing:
FMR LLC
Item 2(b). Address or Principal Business Office or, if None,
Residence:
245 Summer Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02210
Item 2(c). Citizenship:
Not applicable
Item 2(d). Title of Class of Securities:
Common Stock
Item 2(e). CUSIP Number:
28140H104
Item 3. This statement is filed pursuant to Rule 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
and the person filing, FMR LLC, is a parent holding company
in accordance with Section 240.13d-1(b)(ii)(G). (Note: See
Item 7).
Item 4. Ownership
(a) Amount Beneficially Owned: 7,683,302
(b) Percent of Class: 6.692%
(c) Number of shares as to which such
person has:
(i) sole power to vote or to direct
the vote: 1,583,421
(ii) shared power to vote or to
direct the vote: 0
(iii) sole power to dispose or to
direct the disposition of: 7,683,302
(iv) shared power to dispose or to
direct the disposition of: 0
Item 5. Ownership of Five Percent or Less of a Class.
Not applicable.
Item 6. Ownership of More than Five Percent on Behalf of Another
Person.
Various persons have the right to receive or the power to
direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the
sale of, the Common Stock of Education Realty Trust
Incorporated. No one person's interest in the Common Stock
of Education Realty Trust Incorporated is more than five
percent of the total outstanding Common Stock.
Item 7. Identification and Classification of the Subsidiary Which
Acquired the Security Being Reported on By the Parent
Holding Company.
See attached Exhibit A.
Item 8. Identification and Classification of Members of
the Group.
Not applicable. See attached Exhibit A.
Item 9. Notice of Dissolution of Group.
Not applicable.
Item 10. Certification.
By signing below I certify that, to the best of my knowledge
and belief, the securities referred to above were acquired in the
ordinary course of business and were not acquired for the
purpose of and do not have the effect of changing or
influencing the control of the issuer of such securities and
were not acquired in connection with or as a participant in any
transaction having such purpose or effect.
Signature
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and
belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement
is true, complete and correct.
September 09, 2013
Date
/s/ Scott C. Goebel
Signature
Scott C. Goebel
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney
effective as of June 1, 2008 by and on behalf of FMR LLC
and its direct and indirect subsidiaries
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
Pursuant to the instructions in Item 7 of Schedule 13G,
Fidelity Management & Research Company ("Fidelity"), 245
Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, a wholly-
owned subsidiary of FMR LLC and an investment adviser
registered under Section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act
of 1940, is the beneficial owner of 4,485,859 shares or 3.907%
of the Common Stock outstanding of Education Realty Trust
Incorporated ("the Company") as a result of acting as
investment adviser to various investment companies registered
under Section 8 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.
Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR LLC, through its
control of Fidelity, and the funds each has sole power to
dispose of the 4,485,859 shares owned by the Funds.
Fidelity SelectCo, LLC ("SelectCo"), 1225 17th Street,
Suite 1100, Denver, Colorado 80202, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of FMR LLC and an investment adviser registered
under Section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, is
the beneficial owner of 1,614,022 shares or 1.406% of the
Common Stock outstanding of the Company as a result of
acting as investment adviser to various investment companies
registered under Section 8 of the Investment Company Act of
1940 (the "Sector Funds").
Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR LLC, through its
control of SelectCo, and the Sector Funds each has sole power
to dispose of the 1,614,022 shares owned by the Sector Funds.
Members of the family of Edward C. Johnson 3d,
Chairman of FMR LLC, are the predominant owners, directly
or through trusts, of Series B voting common shares of FMR
LLC, representing 49% of the voting power of FMR LLC.
The Johnson family group and all other Series B shareholders
have entered into a shareholders' voting agreement under
which all Series B voting common shares will be voted in
accordance with the majority vote of Series B voting common
shares. Accordingly, through their ownership of voting
common shares and the execution of the shareholders' voting
agreement, members of the Johnson family may be deemed,
under the Investment Company Act of 1940, to form a
controlling group with respect to FMR LLC.
Neither FMR LLC nor Edward C. Johnson 3d,
Chairman of FMR LLC, has the sole power to vote or direct
the voting of the shares owned directly by the Fidelity Funds,
which power resides with the Funds' Boards of Trustees.
Fidelity carries out the voting of the shares under written
guidelines established by the Funds' Boards of Trustees.
Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC ("PGALLC"), 900
Salem Street, Smithfield, Rhode Island, 02917, an indirect
wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR LLC and an investment
adviser registered under Section 203 of the Investment
Advisers Act of 1940, is the beneficial owner of 61,402 shares
or 0.053% of the outstanding Common Stock of Education
Realty Trust Incorporated as a result of its serving as
investment adviser to institutional accounts, non-U.S. mutual
funds, or investment companies registered under Section 8 of
the Investment Company Act of 1940 owning such shares.
Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR LLC, through its
control of PGALLC, each has sole dispositive power over
61,402 shares and sole power to vote or to direct the voting of
61,402 shares of Common Stock owned by the institutional
accounts or funds advised by PGALLC as reported above.
Pyramis Global Advisors Trust Company ("PGATC"),
900 Salem Street, Smithfield, Rhode Island, 02917, an indirect
wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR LLC and a bank as defined
in Section 3(a)(6) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, is
the beneficial owner of 1,522,019 shares or 1.326% of the
outstanding Common Stock of the Education Realty Trust
Incorporated as a result of its serving as investment manager
of institutional accounts owning such shares.
Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR LLC, through its
control of Pyramis Global Advisors Trust Company, each has
sole dispositive power over 1,522,019 shares and sole power
to vote or to direct the voting of 1,522,019 shares of Common
Stock owned by the institutional accounts managed by
PGATC as reported above.
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
RULE 13d-1(f)(1) AGREEMENT
The undersigned persons, on September 09, 2013,
agree and consent to the joint filing on their behalf of this
Schedule 13G in connection with their beneficial ownership of
the Common Stock of Education Realty Trust Incorporated at
August 31, 2013.
FMR LLC
By /s/ Scott C. Goebel
Scott C. Goebel
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney effective as
of June 1, 2008, by and on behalf of FMR LLC and its direct
and indirect subsidiaries
Edward C. Johnson 3d
By /s/ Scott C. Goebel
Scott C. Goebel
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney effective as
of June 1, 2008, by and on behalf of Edward C. Johnson 3d
Fidelity Management & Research Company
By /s/ Scott C. Goebel
Scott C. Goebel
Senior V.P. and General Counsel