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Rajib Chanda Quoted in Barron’s on Activist Investor Involvement in Closed-End Funds

08.22.16

Corporate Partner Rajib Chanda was quoted in Barron’s in connection with trends in activist investor involvement in closed-end funds. The article, “Closed-End Fund Investors Should Watch the Activists,” discusses the typical goal of activists who invest in closed-end funds, “to narrow the discount between the fund’s net asset value . . . and its trading price,” and the possible decrease in activists’ future activity in such funds as the opportunity to further narrow discounts declines. Rajib predicts that activist involvement will continue in 2016, but will “not [be] a 2017 problem.”

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