• Octagon escalated its campaign against XAI Floating Rate & Alternative Income Trust’s board over a proposed sub-adviser change.
• Octagon argued the fund has delivered about 40% total NAV return since inception, criticizing the board’s focus on a NAV measure excluding distributions.
• It said ISS called the board’s process “not unreasonable” and “not indefensible,” without backing the adviser switch as a value-creation step.
• Octagon proposed cutting the management fee to 1.3% from 1.7%, paired with actions to narrow the discount to NAV.
• It urged shareholders to vote against the new sub-adviser, pushing Octagon as primary adviser to reduce disruption.

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