Baillie Gifford: Investment trusts 'that simply mirror an OEIC are vulnerable to attack'

Following Saba saga

Linus Uhlig
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Investment trusts which fail to differentiate themselves from an OEIC and do not pull the levers closed-ended products have at hand risk entering the crosshairs of activist investors.

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