Friday Briefing: The time for talking is over, Saba vote will show how much the industry cares about retail investors

Friday Briefing

Eve Maddock-Jones
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Almost a month ago to the day, Saba Capital published its bombshell letter which has since sent the UK investment trust space into a spiral.

Back on 18 December, Saba went public with its plans to oust the boards of seven trusts, forcing a spotlight on the closed-ended space, for the good, the bad and the ugly. The mud slinging between the trusts and Saba has been relentless and Investment Week has diligently separated the news from the noise since the whole saga began. And in a week which saw Saba's CEO, Boaz Weinstein, host one of the most ‘cannot pull your eyes away' webinars I've ever seen, calling out the UK industry with a no-holds-barred approach, it would be easy to go through a point-by-point breakdown of everythi...

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