Square Mile's David Holder: Lessons from the Saba saga

Conflict far from over

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The oft-sleepy world of UK closed-ended investment trusts has been anything but over recent months, as New York hedge fund and activist investor Saba Capital parked its tanks on the lawns of a series of boards.

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