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Ep. 6— Business-development companies offer unique opportunities for yield

November 1st, 2019|Comments Off on Ep. 6— Business-development companies offer unique opportunities for yield

Chris Oberbeck, chairman and chief executive officer at Saratoga Investment Corp. talks about how and why he and his partners took over a struggling business-development company at the height of the late-2000s financial crisis, and how BDCs by structure and underlying assets make...

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Ep. 5— Lessons from the birthplace of closed-end funds

October 25th, 2019|Comments Off on Ep. 5— Lessons from the birthplace of closed-end funds

Piers Currie of Warhorse Partners discusses the long history of closed-end funds and unit investment trusts in England and what domestic investors can learn from the industry in Europe...

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3Apr, 2024

Axel Merk on contending with activists

By |April 3rd, 2024|Video Interviews|

Axel Merk, Founder and CEO of Merk Investments, talks about his firm’s ASA Gold and Precious Metals fund (ASA), a non-diversified closed-end precious metals and mining fund established in 1958. Merk discusses the impact that activist hedge fund Saba Capital Management is having on the fund and its shareholders as it moves to change the board and close ASA’s discount. He also gives his view of the current state of the gold and silver market.

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