Boaz Weinstein Ready to Plow Billions More Into UK Trust Fight
Weeks after scoring a string of wins in his high-profile campaign for better returns from UK investment trusts, here is activist hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein's latest message for the industry: I'm not going anywhere.
'I'm here and I'm ready to buy billions more of whatever is for sale and not effective,' Weinstein said in an interview. The comments come after he struck agreements with London-listed funds run by Janus Henderson Group Plc and Manulife Investment Management — two of the trusts he had campaigned against.
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