Hedge fund Fortelus and other investors are preparing to oust the management of a publicly listed investment trust because they disagree with its investment decisions, the Guardian has learned. The growing row provides a rare insight into the way hedge funds operate.

Fortelus owns 14% of the shares of Strategic Equity Capital (SEC), a trust managed by London-based asset manager SVG Investment Managers. Along with shareholders representing another 20% of the company’s capital, the rebel group will request management to step down at an extraordinary general meeting to be held in London on 14 August. "We’re launching an EGM to remove the board of this underperforming fund," said one of the investors.

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Reuters India – KSK Emerging India Energy Fund had raised £100 million from AIM last year to invest in Indian energy companies.

Global recession has claimed a victim in India. KSK Emerging India Energy Fund (KEF), a £100 million fund listed in London’s Alternative Investment Market, has been wound up after the shareholders passed a resolution last week demanding the same.

The shareholders – which include large hedge funds – passed a resolution on January 22 asking for the liquidation of the company and the return of funds invested by them. The delisting of the company and liquidation has come into effect from January 23. The EGM was held in Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands.

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