TWO US hedge funds appear to be turning the screw on Edinburgh Fund Managers' (Edinburgh's) poorly-performing Dunedin Worldwide Investment Trust. The #420m Dunedin Worldwide announced yesterday that the funds, the Liverpool Limited Partnership and Westgate International Limited Partnership, had increased their joint stake in it from 8.69% to 10.7%. Their initial stake was declared only last week.

The last time a US arbitrage fund took a major stake in one of Edinburgh's investment trusts, the #333m American Trust, it forced the fund's indexation and a halving of Edinburgh's annual management fee from about #1.67m to about #832,500.