Saba Capital Management, L.P.

CIK: 0001510281
Primary company: ASA Gold & Precious Metals Ltd (ASA)

Saba Capital Management, L.P. is a corporate insider at ASA Gold & Precious Metals Ltd (ASA) filing SEC Form 4 transactions. 563 transactions across 25 companies, totaling $65,240,803 in purchases and $76,789,287 in sales. Source: SEC EDGAR.

AI Insider Summary

Saba Capital Management, L.P.'s 511-transaction filing record spans fifteen closed-end and interval funds and is structured around active portfolio management rather than executive compensation — a distinction that matters because the recent filing cadence does not follow the calendar-driven pattern of a personal Form 4 file. Across those fifteen relationships, ECAT accounts for 134 transactions and 8,807,583 shares of net sells against only 303,392 bought, a nine-to-one ratio that dominates the file's volume and places ECAT in the category of an actively managed fund winding down a concentrated position. The recent two-week window of June 2026 produced ten ECAT open-market sales ranging from 10,034 to 130,170 shares and landing on consecutive or near-consecutive trading days — the kind of clustered daily distribution that a hedge fund generates when executing a pre-committed sell program through a trading desk, not the kind of pattern a retail calendar watch would flag as a single 'insider trade.' The other fourteen funds are quieter in the recent window: GF and MXF produced small open-market buys, and one other fund generated modest activity. The right read: this file is an active fund's portfolio turnover record, the ECAT sell cluster is intentional execution rather than calendar-driven mechanical disgorgement, and the appropriate watchlist signal is the concentration of ten consecutive sell-days at ECAT, which is the kind of event a multi-day sell-event detector catches with high reliability.

ECAT is the dominant force in the file. Eight point eight million shares sold against 303,000 bought is a liquidation at scale, and the recent June 2026 window — ten filings in two weeks, each a sell, ranging from 10,000 to 130,000 shares — is the kind of execution pattern a desk generates when selling a concentrated position into a market window. The dates cluster: June 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, and July 1 all produced ECAT sales. The cumulative sell in that window exceeded 600,000 shares, which for a fund of this size is a meaningful but not extraordinary tranche.

The contrast with the portfolio is instructive. GF and MXF, the only other active funds in the recent window, generated small buy events — 100 shares here, 10,176 there, 5,100, 15,051. These are acquisition trades, not liquidation trades, and they are spaced across several dates with no clustering pattern that suggests a coordinated program.

Analysis generated by 13F Insight from SEC Form 4 filing data. Methodology
Total Transactions
563
Total Buy Value
$65.24M
Total Sell Value
$76.79M
Net Activity
$-11.55M
Last Transaction
Aug 2026
Companies
25

Companies

Transaction History

Source: SEC EDGAR Form 4 insider transaction filings.

Type
Sale
Shares
153,689
Price
$15.83
Value
$2.43M
Type
Purchase
Shares
4,758
Price
$11.59
Value
$55K
Type
Purchase
Shares
200
Price
$9.93
Value
$2K
Type
Sale
Shares
120,376
Price
$15.84
Value
$1.91M
Type
Sale
Shares
205,881
Price
$15.81
Value
$3.25M
Type
Sale
Shares
165,027
Price
$15.67
Value
$2.59M
Type
Sale
Shares
134,046
Price
$15.50
Value
$2.08M
Type
Purchase
Shares
266
Price
$11.43
Value
$3K
Type
Sale
Shares
42,298
Price
$15.46
Value
$654K
Type
Purchase
Shares
1,844
Price
$11.60
Value
$21K
Type
Sale
Shares
99,323
Price
$15.34
Value
$1.52M
Type
Purchase
Shares
9,362
Price
$22.19
Value
$208K
Type
Purchase
Shares
174
Price
$21.54
Value
$4K
Type
Sale
Shares
201,906
Price
$15.16
Value
$3.06M
Type
Purchase
Shares
157
Price
$11.35
Value
$2K
Type
Sale
Shares
160,866
Price
$15.00
Value
$2.41M
Type
Purchase
Shares
708
Price
$11.24
Value
$8K
Type
Sale
Shares
187,774
Price
$15.00
Value
$2.82M
Type
Purchase
Shares
3,077
Price
$21.34
Value
$66K
Type
Purchase
Shares
2,608
Price
$21.56
Value
$56K