2024 in Review: John Cole Scott on how his forecasts turned out

John Cole Scott — president of Closed-End Fund Advisors and the chairman of the Active Investment Company Alliance — revisits the forecasts he made for the closed-end fund business a year ago and to grade himself as a soothsayer. Having made his 2025 calls for closed-end funds a week ago, he puts some weight behind his prognostications by showing that, for the second year in a row, the data that's now in the books proved most of his predictions to be correct.