Questions abound as Elliott takes 5% stake in Scottish Mortgage
Arrival of activist US hedge fund on the register of the Baillie Gifford global flagship revives memories of Elliott's successful campaign against Alliance Trust a decade ago.
Gavin Lumsden
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Elliott Associates, the much feared and respected US activist hedge fund, has emerged with a 5% stake in Scottish Mortgage Trust (SMT).
In a post-market disclosure to the stock exchange, the Delaware-based investment firm revealed it had bought nearly 0.5% of the Baillie Gifford flagship’s shares with a further 4.57% in equity swaps to take it just over the 5% threshold.
Founded in 1977 by Paul Singer, Elliott is best known for buying distressed emerging market bonds and pursuing Peru and Argentina through international courts when they defaulted on their debts. Closer in time and space, last month it made a takeover approach to electrical retailer Currys (CURY)
In the UK investment company market, the firm is fondly remembered, by most, for its campaign against Alliance Trust (ATST). After building up a 14% stake in the underperforming global equities fund, it obtained two seats on the board in 2015 before ousting chief executive Katherine Garrett-Cox and starting a process that saw her financial services empire dismantled and the company’s adoption of the multi-manager structure under Willis Towers Watson we know today.
eytan is a busy man....jeezus, what a ******!
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I was hoping for 0.3p so I could sell up and escape this sh*t show. Looking unlikely atm.....
I was hoping for 2.7p so I could sell up and escape this sh*t show. Looking highly unlikely atm.............
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