Saba saga 'should come as no surprise' and serves as 'a wakeup call to boards' no matter the outcome

Board requisition votes set

Linus Uhlig
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“This is what Saba does. This is out of the playbook in the US, so it should come as no surprise,” said Baillie Gifford’s director of marketing and distribution, James Budden, speaking as a storm of US hedge fund investor activism has rocked the investment trust sector.

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